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TIL Pornhub is the 69th most visited website in the world.

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jNVrn TIL that Roger Boisjoly was an engineer working at NASA in 1986 that predicted that the O-rings on the Challenger would fail and tried to abort the mission but nobody listened to him
Q10a TIL the founder of Norton Antivirus purchased, at an auction, love letters written by the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye and returned the letters to the Author out of respect for his privacy.
7rWVM TIL that Harvard University said it can't afford journal publishers' prices and wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls
6Oam TIL that Adolf Hitlers father beat him severely every day. When his father found out that he was planning to run away, he beat him so hard that he went into a coma for days - his family unsure if he was going to live
KO4VQ TIL that after 15 years, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire's option to 'Ask The Audience' was 92% correct.