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TIL Facebook has about 8000 user deaths per day, and eventually the dead profiles will out number living ones making it a digital graveyard.

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xJRo TIL police in west Germany located a man who had a warrant for unpaid fines. They confronted him just as his slot machine struck a jackpot, and he avoided jail time by paying his fine on the spot.
wonPY TIL Benedetta Carlini, the 17th century nun known for being charged by the inquisition for having sex with a fellow nun while "being possesed by a demon", was also a mystic. She would fall in a trance state, speak in tongues and suffered from stigmata. She also married Jesus in an official ceremony
vvbL TIL Tony Danza starred in a reality show in which he taught 10th grade students, which lasted one season because it wasn’t dramatic enough and Tony refused to allow the producers to try to generate drama among his students.
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