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TIL a Twitch troll donated $50K from his parents CCs and planned to charge it back once the streamers had spent it. Paypal then declined to issue charge backs.

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xV7D1 TIL that lodestones (natural magnetic stones) are very probably made when a lightning strikes ferrite stones ; a scientist proved it by sending a small rocket containing this type of stone into a storm cloud and the stone returned magnetic
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