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TIL the creators of Kazaa went on to become the team that created Skype.

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B4ek TIL that red velvet cake is just chocolate cake with red food couloring
kGXg TIL a study titled “Where Are They Now?” in 1978 followed up on 515 people who were prevented from attempting suicide using the Golden Gate Bridge from 1937 to 1971. About 90% were either alive or had died of natural causes, concluding “suicidal behavior is crisis-oriented” rather than inexorable.
8eBKX TIL: A political decoy is a person employed to draw attention away from a politician and to take risks on that their behalf.
Y7Gwv TIL: Though uncommon, some peoples used entire bird carcasses, with wicks pulled through from anus to mouth, as candles.
Oo0RY TIL that the Allied forces were able to estimate the monthly production rate of German tanks using probability theory during World War 2.