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TIL That Sim Cards Actually Are Mini Computers With Their Own CPU, ROM, RAM, and EEPROM

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4X6BJ TIL Half a watermelon in Barrow, Alaska costs $36.96 in late 2017
nY6B TIL - In 2001, workers took over a struggling factory after their employer refused to provide them with a travel allowance and left the business for dead. Soon, they had made new clients, paid off the factory debts, and raised their salaries. The factory continues to run as a co-operative.
9YLaM TIL Antibiotic ointments such as Neosporin have not been proven more effective at healing than regular petroleum jelly, and may contribute to the spread of MRSA
yQd58 TIL that in China there are centres for internet addiction with treatments that can be so rough that some patients have died. Some facilities use electro-shock treatment as part of the cure, and among roughly three hundred such centres in China, there have been seven reported deaths.
0wZPp TIL after her husband (Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner) returned home from the front lines, having recently helped unleash chemical weapons onto the battle field for the first time, Clara Immerwahr shot herself in the heart with his military issue pistol in protest.