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TIL When twitter switched from 140 to 280 characters, political discourse became more polite, less informal, more analytical, but less substantive.

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7rPBp TIL that scientists once gave drugs to bees, and found that they respond similarly to humans: bees on cocaine tend to overestimate the amount of sugar they find and exaggerate when reporting back to the hive.
oZO8 TIL that USMC Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, recipient of 16 medals (five for heroism), wrote a booklet called “War is a Racket” detailing the conspiratorial nature of the US military and war-profiteers
Bg1db TIL the largest red diamond in the world (the rarest color) was not found by miners but by a farmer. It weighs one gram and sold for eight million dollars.
1awnd TIL there is a McDonald’s ‘gold card’ that allows the cardholder free McDonald’s food. The gold cards vary from person to person, however Bill Gates’ card grants him a lifetime of unlimited free food worldwide.
LRnV TIL that GTA: Chinatown Wars is the most complex Nintendo DS game ever made, with more than 800,000 lines of code;