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TIL that music streaming sites are basically aggregating cloud services like Dropbox with no connection to musical labels or artists

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ADDOo TIL that Sweet Tarts are just compressed Pixy Stix powder and pouring Pixy Stix into your water like Kool-Aid isn’t that strange. AND Fun-Dip is just Pixy Stix with a candy dip stick. Shouldn’t be this surprised. Just never really thought it but Wanka is a lot like Taco Bell.
P1Q9n TIL Over the past decade there has been at least a four- to five-fold increase in the number of oral cancers in the US as a result of HVP infections. The odds of HPV-positive throat cancer increased five-fold in those patients with six or more oral sexual partners.
v1XPR TIL after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 the debris field stretched from Texas through Louisiana, and the search team was so thorough they found nearly 84,000 pieces of the shuttle, as well as a number of murder victims and a few meth labs.
mQZp TIL That in 1965, a jet fell off of a aircraft carrier off the coast of Japan and with it was a 1 megaton nuclear bomb that was never recovered
rxdd TIL an original meaning behind the term “Hipster” was for people who laid on their sides in Opium dens.