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TIL the song "Losing my Religion" isn't about faith and instead uses a Southern expression for losing your temper

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W99B TIL There is an open-source social networking and sharing platform that is decentralized like TOR, has distributed file sharing like BitTorrent, and is “hardly possible to monitor from an external point of view”. It also has built in VoIP for voice chat.
kOXrd TIL that it is not an urban legend that snakes could hide in toilets and attack the genitals of humans. It has happened multiple times in real life.
R5pxw TIL that in ancient Greece, during the Olympic Games, all participants competed in the nude, and only men were allowed to participate in the contests.
BPje TIL that it was an Oracle Sales Rep who stormed the cockpit of flight 93 with his last words “Let’s Roll”
v1AG7 TIL about Sarah Knauss, who was the oldest verified American ever, dying at age 119 on December 30, 1999. Her age was verified with the help of an 1891 US Census directory, a 1900 US Census entry, a 1901 marriage certificate, and both 1910 and 1930 US Census entries. All of these confirm her age.