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TIL of DMHO - the joke to call water by an alternative chemical compound name (Dihydrogen monoxide)

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e0Zk TIL According to University of California, the world’s servers processed 9.87 Zettabytes of information in a single year. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000 GigaBytes!
ojDW TIL the Monster Study was an experiment designed to induce stuttering in otherwise normal-speaking orphan children. Some of the children were praised for their speech, while others ridiculed and belittled… these children later developed speech problems that lasted their entire life.
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AwOl TIL that in 2008 13 babies in China died after ingesting a formula made with melamine which the company added to make it look like it had a higher protein content. Two of the owners of the company involved were actually executed.