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TIL that Bank of America hired three intelligience firms to dismantle wikileaks, instucted by the Department of Justice. Anonymous hacked these in response.

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kmNB TIL In ‘03, Mitsubishi offered a “0-0-0” deal in the US which offered a new car for 0 down, 0% interest and 0 payments for a year. Many buyers defaulted after the year leaving Mitsubishi with used vehicles for which they’d received no money and which were now worth less than they cost to manufacture
LQvdm TIL As a teenager Bernhard Riemann finished all 900 pages in Legendre's book on the Theory of Numbers in six days. Riemann later challenged what the dimension of real space was and what geometry described real space, ideas too far ahead of its time to be appreciated by most scientists of that time
Wk4Z9 TIL that male chicks are ground up alive on their first day of birth in the egg industry
11j8 TIL Petrichor is the word for the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil.
ZxKB TIL that all screens in an Apple Store are set to 70 degrees. This is to make people touch the device, because no one can see the screen well enough at 70 degrees and will have to adjust it.