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TIL “public relations” is an anagram of “crap built on lies”

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Yaax TIL that two amazon booksellers using automatic algorithms to set their prices once each accidentally based their pricing on the other. The automatic programs created an upward spiral of competing prices that eventually topped $3 million for a textbook.
M70BA TIL the Brooklyn bridge originally was called the New York and Brooklyn bridge
oRWAr TIL that from 2002 until 2012, Papua New Guinea's national parliament only had one female legislator, an Australian-born white woman named Carol Kidu.
ZYAo TIL during WWII, Bill Tutte cracked the German Lorenz cipher using nothing more than a pen and paper, and having never seen the machine, after the Germans accidentally sent the same message twice. It is described as one the the greatest intellectual feats of the 20th Century.
wLb5E TIL about the Sakhalar, a Siberian group of half a million indigenous to a massive swath of Russia