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TIL Hackers attacked an epilepsy forum posting hundreds of messages embedded with flashing animated gifs triggering migraine headaches and seizures in some users.

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VM1L4 TIL about Alex Mullen, a memory competitor and American memory grandmaster, who set a world record in 2017 by memorizing 3,238 digits in the space of an hour by using the Sherlock-popularized memory palace.
X07EX TIL On May 3, 2008 Estonian activists organized themselves as an ad hoc community to clean up the country's 10,000 tons of waste in a single day
9oBD TIL that across all the European countries fighting in WWII, only three national capitals were never occupied: Moscow, London and Helsinki.
Wk5DB TIL in 1968 Mao Zedong received a box of 40 mangoes from Pakistan. They were taken on a tour of China and became part of Chinese propaganda. A dentist that compared the mangoes to sweet potatoes in appearance was executed.
awK8y TIL A study with over 1,600 patients concluded that acetaminophen is ineffective for low back pain and it worked no better than placebo to speed up recovery