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TIL an Italian restaurant owner boosted business by asking for tons of negative reviews to get around Yelp's positive review blocking practices

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awr0y TIL the Vaquita porpoise is so endangered that there are only 9 left in the wild. They are the world’s most endangered marine mammal.
9wPKB TIL that censors in Tsarist Russia did not censor Das Kapital upon its publication because they believed that "very few people in Russia will read it, and even fewer will understand it."
nebar TIL it wasn't illegal to buy or sell human organs until 1984 in the US.
M7Vrm TIL of Alexander Carlisle who was responsible for the lifeboats and watertight doors on The Titanic. He resigned after his recommendations that more lifeboats be fitted to The Titanic was refused.
yQBBM TIL about history's most expensive "hyphen" when a NASA programmer missed out a single hyphen whilst transcribing a mathematical formula for the guidance system which caused an entire NASA rocket launch to be aborted and the rocket destroyed.