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TIL that asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral which has to be mined, and that millions of tons of it are still being mined today.

by whatilearned May 26, 2023, 3:08 am

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TIL about Project West Ford, a Cold War project done by MIT on behalf of the US military. It was an attempt to create an artificial ionosphere around the Earth by launching millions of copper needles into orbit.

by whatilearned May 18, 2023, 12:40 pm

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TIL the Kootenai Indian Tribe of Idaho and Montana harvests millions of dollars of sturgeon caviar a year, but put all the eggs back in the rivers. They are desperately try to save the shrinking white sturgeon population which they believe are “sacred messengers.”

by whatilearned May 17, 2023, 5:10 am

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TIL that in 1971 the Shah of Iran threw one of the most expensive parties in history, costing hundreds of millions of dollars. It was attended by nearly all royal families and presidents, and spared no expense. The over extravagance arguably led to the islamic revolution and ousted him from power.

by whatilearned May 8, 2023, 7:16 pm

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“Millions of players are doing the stupidest SHIT on ROBLOX” Copy pasta

by CopyPastaArchive May 6, 2023, 6:06 pm

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TIL A division of the pharmaceutical company Bayer sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs – medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS – to Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980s while selling a new, safer product in the West.

by whatilearned April 30, 2023, 2:20 am

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Question for British Redditors … how do you feel about coughing up hundreds of millions for a dress-up party for a multi-billionaire next weekend?

by QuestionGuy April 29, 2023, 11:39 am

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TIL Jerome Jacobson led a fraud scheme during the McDonald’s Monopoly Game in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He worked for Simon Marketing, the company who distributed the pieces, and generated millions in illegal profits. The FBI caught the perpetrators during an operation called “Final Answer.”

by whatilearned April 26, 2023, 8:35 pm

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TIL about Tetrachromats – people with a special receptor in their retinas that allow them to see millions of colors that most of us can’t distinguish!

by whatilearned March 19, 2023, 5:47 pm

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Til of Robin Mahfood, who ran a charity called Food for the Poor that was charged millions for misleading donors and tax officials as well as raising prices for donated goods under his leadership

by whatilearned March 6, 2023, 7:25 am

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TIL that when Sony installed rootkits on millions of devices as a form of DRM, DRM circumvention laws meant it was illegal to try and remove it.

by whatilearned March 4, 2023, 5:34 am

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Millions of players are doing the stupidest shit on Roblox

by CopyPastaArchive March 2, 2023, 3:56 pm

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