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TIL PornHub is worth 1.5 billion dollars in net worth.

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4XeBb TIL that for a cloth bag to actually be sustainable and better for the environment, it has to be reused 131 times to break even with the plastic bags in terms of impact on environment in the process of making. (While plastic bags can also be reused but people just don't)
OGoA1 TIL of Etta Mae Lopez, a California woman who waited outside a jail all day and slapped the first deputy who came out, in order to get sent to prison where she hoped to quit smoking
ne4db TIL a woman was sentenced to 40 days in prison and deported from Denmark for begging.
v1PWB TIL that in 2016 India gave its citizens less than 4 hours notice that their two largest bills (worth about $8 and $16) would no longer be legal tender. They were only allowed to exchange a max of ₹2000-4500 ($31-70) per person per day, and ATMs were still running out of cash up to 5 months later.
lMMV TIL that ‘the anchoring effect’ is the common human tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered (the “anchor”) when making decisions