This month’s stories:

The Girls Around Me app - “Creepy, dangerous and a good reminder to update your privacy settings”

• BBC article
• Wall Street Journal

Subreddit of the month:

• http://reddit.com/r/TodayILearned (TIL)

TIL Examples:

• TIL that more people drown in the desert than die of thirst
• TIL that in 2010 a Microsoft exec wrote a version of Halo for the Atari 2600, and there’s a Flash version you can play online
• TIL we have 60 minute hours because the Babylonians used a base-60 system of math.
• TIL if you select comic sans for instant messages in Skype, the emoticon smiley face turns into a sad face.
• TIL scientists can tell exactly what decision you will make up to six seconds before you make it.
• TIL that you are legally entitled to $500 every time a telemarketer calls you after you have asked them to stop
• TIL in June 2008, a tornado hit Kansas State University’s campus destroying only one building: their Wind Erosion Lab
• TIL that Olivia Hussey, the actor who played Juliet in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, wasn’t legally able to attend the 18+ premiere due to its nudity, even though it was her breasts that were shown.
• TIL that as of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime, which is more than half of his current net worth of $61 billion.
• TIL that a Labrador Retriever service dog pulled his disabled owner into the recovery position after he was struck unconscious, then covered him with a blanket. Retrieved his mobile phone and pushed it against his face, and only left his owner to fetch help once he had regained consciousness.

WeReddit Again

• Barclays PingIt (Episode 1) is now available for any UK Bank. Not quite as good as if you bank with Barclays, which takes/deposits money from your main account. When PingIt is used with other banks, Barclays effectively give you a Barclays bank account which you can top-up or withdraw from by bank transfer. Other banks are powerless to stop people using PingIt with their non-Barclays account.
• Now everyone can use Barclays’ Pingit service to send and receive money on mobiles
• Banks scrambling to follow Barclays with pay-by-mobile service
•  PS Vita (Episode 1). Price dropped after just 40 days. Last week 8,200 Vitas sold in Japan compared to 13,000 PSPs. Nintendo 3DS now sold below cost.
• PlayStation Vita Sales Heavily Decrease, Being Outsold By PSP
• Amazon: £180, down from £230 at launch

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