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TIL a group of ‘internet vigilantes’ (nerds from the midwest) convinced a group of Nigerian e-mail scammers to travel to war torn Chad in order to pick up their money, effectively stranding them in Chad for 109 days.

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LkPNv TIL that there is a music genre dedicated to the 80´s called Retrowave (or Synthwave) which emulated the era on spot, only with modern production.
G8y4 TIL that Nirvana’s cover of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold The World” off of their 1993 MTV Unplugged album revitalized people’s interest in Bowie while also leading his younger listeners to think he was covering Nirvana, much to his annoyance.
o1Lr TIL that before Alcoa could build an aluminum smelting plant in Iceland, the government had to certify that the area was “elf-free”.
d8BK TIL helium-3, an isotope commonly found in space (but not on Earth) could solve clean energy.
B8L TIL that the mascot for the Arkansas School for the Deaf is the Leopard. They’re the leopards that are deaf. The Deaf Leopards.