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TIL that during WWII, ‘Rumor Clinics’ were set up to dispel morale-damaging gossip.

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KKWw TIL archive.org hosts over 2000 MS DOS games that you can play right in your web browser for free.
Mo1K TIL during the 1992 Olympics the USA men’s basketball team held a private scrimmage with some of the best players to ever play in the NBA. Michael Jordan later said it was “the best game I was ever in”. Because there is no known recording it is now referred to as “The Greatest Game Nobody Ever Saw”.
W7D5N TIL the popularity of the Twilight series caused the name "Isabella" to surge to the #1 spot for baby names in 2009 and 2010.
JY5e4 TIL that scientists had to rename as many as 27 human genes because Microsoft Excel kept misreading their symbols as dates
0d7Wj TIL that In 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log in to any Hotmail account using the password 'eh'. At the time, it was called "the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web"