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TIL Sweater Curse is a curse that causes a knitter's SO to break up with them

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AB77 TIL hacker Samy Kamkar created a Myspace virus, which made anyone that looked at his profile automatically become his Myspace friend. It spread at a rate of 1000 accounts becoming his friend every second, resulting in over 1 million friends. Samy was raided by the Secret Service and got probation.
l7n1 TIL that Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline lived to the age of 96, he attributed his longevity to the spoonful of Vaseline that he ate every day.
oBmAR TIL the difference between a blizzard and a snowstorm is the strength of the wind, not the amount of snow
6D1m TIL it costs between 35,000-80,000 US dollars to climb Mount Everest. The permit alone costs 11,000 dollars.
E189P TIL that hockey goalie Clint Malarchuks throat got slashed by skate during a live NHL game, the injury was so bad that 11 fans fainted, 2 got heart attack and at least 3 players vomited on the ice. The wound was so bad that it needed 300 stiches. Clint was back on ice just a week later.