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TIL that the most complex Chinese character (hanzi) is 64 strokes & means ‘verbose’.

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Oo7Ma TIL that the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people. Although mostly forgotten today, the “chemist’s war of Prohibition” remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history.
RKk1 TIL in 2012 the largest breast cancer foundation in the United States, Susan G Komen, attempted to withdraw funding for Planned Parenthood for mammograms, the diagnostic and screening tool for breast cancer.
vZAx TIL that Hack the System blogger Maneesh Sethi hired women from Craigslist to yell and slap him for procrastinating or getting off task from his work. His work productivity went up and he improved at his job.
doNZ TIL that the guy who made the Wall Street “charging bull” statue still owns it, as it was originally Guerrilla Art.
loQxK TIL about the Pricolici and the Strigoi- the original vampires an werewolves