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TIL there is a foundation (Project Prevention) that pays crack addicted women $300 to get sterilized.

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yrDw TIL in an act of industrial espionage, a Japanese scientist who stole an incomplete capacitor design led to hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for companies like IBM, Dell, Apple, HP and Intel, in a decade long onslaught of faulty electronics known as The Capacitor Plague.
4G05 TIL of the 2038 Problem, a computer science problem theorized to be worse than Y2K. 2038 day will occur on January 19th at 3:14:07 UTC, when the number of seconds since the clock started (January 1st 1971), passes the maximum integer in 32 bits (2^31).
wLveW TIL of Dr. Sanduk Ruit who has successfully cured over 130,000 people of blindness.
vP8GK TIL that the debut album of Robson & Jerome (a singing duo made up of actors Robson Green and Jerome Flynn) held the record for selling 2 million copies in the UK in the fastest time, for nearly 20 years
1oEO TIL gloves which can translate sign language into speech are being developed