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TIL Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the web

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ADoYB TIL that the US Navy publicly denied what is now believed to be an urban legend. Allegedly, a US Navy battleship or aircraft carrier encountered what was ostensibly another vessel and the Captain instructed it to change course. The response was, 'I'm a lighthouse. Your call.'
NWdQ TIL that in 1902, the French, concerned with the large number of rats in Hanoi, instituted a bounty, which would be proven by showing the rat’s tail. People soon began breeding rats for their tails without killing them, causing a bubonic plague.
e0dK6 TIL of the scrapped animated spin-off of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The show would have followed fictional winners of the show who communicated with a fictional host based in the 'Millionaire Command Center'
E1ypx TIL chemotherapy patients should flush the toilet twice to avoid injuring others.
pY4bQ TIL about an operation where the Nazi gov't plotted to airdrop the UK with forged banknotes and collapse the British economy. They had successfully introduced forged banknotes into Britain earlier, but this operation failed, and many of the notes were sunk in 2 Austrian lakes.