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TIL texting is considered to be closer to speaking (“finger speaking”) than it is to writing; it has many hallmarks of an evolving language in its own right with a unique grammar and dialect. Rather than hurting people’s writing skills, texting may provide bidialectical benefits to the brain.

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gLKX TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web”
boBZ TIL that an outbreak of swine flu in the US in 1976 killed one person, but the vaccine for said swine flu killed 25 people.
loZXK TIL Seven Laws of Noah are: 1. Not to worship idols; 2. Not to curse God; 3. To establish courts of justice; 4. Not to commit murder; 5. Not to commit adultery, bestiality, or sexual immorality; 6. Not to steal; 7. Not to eat flesh torn from a living animal.
PYwmg TIL of Paul Chartier, a Canadian man who attempted to bomb the Canadian House of Commons in 1966. Unfortunately (for him) the clerk who sold him the Dynamite misremembered the burn time of the fuse, resulting in the bomb prematurely exploding in a bathroom and killing him before he could use it.
XRKX TIL that the ‘Lorem Ipsum’ text is typically a scrambled section from Cicero’s work 'De finibus bonorum et malorum’ ('On the ends of good and evil’) from the 1st Century BC. 'Lorem ipsum’ is derived from the Latin 'dolorem ipsum’ - “pain itself”.