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TIL that Microsoft used to offer an IRC-based chat software that visually represented chats as sequences of comic panels and looked for cues in the text to help determine the comic character’s gestures and expressions.

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VMZgG TIL a large study found "How's my driving" stickers reduced crashes by 22%. 80% all the drivers never received a complaint. 10% of the total got only one call ever.
AKVx TIL of a town in Kazakhstan, residents of which suffer from an unkown anomaly: they fall asleep in broad daylight and suffer from hallucinations, dizziness, weakness and memory loss. Scientists call is a ‘sleep epidemic’ and can’t explain the reasons for this phenomenon.
dm5K TIL That when caterpillars go through metamorphosis they, essentially, melt into soup and re-form their body from there.
j6R7n TIL A band called “I Am the World Trade Center” released their debut album “Out of the Loop” on July 17, 2001 approximately two months before the September 11 attacks, the 11th song on the album was titled “September”.
9YDZr TIL of Sasha the black cat who was found in the city Santa Fe, Mexico 1,200 miles away five years after disappearing from her Portland home