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TIL that BlackBerry hired actresses to flirt with men in bars in order to push Blackberries on the public. Referred to as stealth marketing, the women would flirt with men and get them to put their numbers in their Blackberries, trying to show off how cool they were.

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ADGXx TIL that in 2007, a married couple in Bosnia started cheating in online chatrooms. When each decided to meet their dates in person, they realized they had been cheating on each other- with each other.
OW67 TIL James Cameron pitched the sequel to Alien by writing the title on a chalkboard, adding an “s”, then turning it into a dollar sign spelling “Alien$”. The project received $18 million dollars.
jN8JR TIL that a catholic altar boy born in Boston dropped out of school, came to Jamaica and then join an Ethiopian Zion Church which he further transformed into an international drug network. The organization was later indicted in Florida for smuggling over 100 tons of marijuana.
Me6Ya TIL that women in Babylon were required to have done prostitution before they could marry!
XP7E TIL that it took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after he created it; the current world record is 5.55 seconds.