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TIL that in Japan you can hire someone to seduce your spouse (or anyone else)

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vP5GB TIL: The original penguins or Great Auk was a species driven to extinction by man. Scientists in the 1600s noticed and tried to prevent it through numerous laws, it failed. In 1840 the last auk in Britain was beaten to death with sticks as the men thought it was a witch causing storms.
7r1or TIL the "Cheerios effect" is an interesting fluid dynamics phenomenon that happens in cereal bowls. When there are just a few bits of cereal left floating on top of the milk, they tend to cluster together in the middle or around the edges of the bowl, rather than dispersing across the surface.
lxg5 TIL Netflix uses up to 33% of total Internet bandwidth in US
N7gb8 TIL in the early 1900s, Dolly Korschel kept a secret lover in her attic for years, had the lover kill her husband after a fight, continued keeping the lover in her attic, and was charged with murder 8 years later but set free because there was a 7-year statute of limitations on murders at the time.
PrAZ TIL that 555 is how Thais laugh via text message as “5” is pronounced “hâa” in Thai, and also how Chinese cry via text as “5” is pronounced “wu”.