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TIL Prince hired Kevin Smith to make a documentary about him and then locked it away in a vault.

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D1QLv TIL that in 1818, treadmills were originally created to punish English prisoners.
4XMN TIL Stephen Fry was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud
NGQJ TIL that the NYPD actively profiles citizens in order to meet “performance standards” aka quotas or else officers get penalized for not having enough “stop and frisk” arrests and summons
6XeY TIL McDonald’s feeds 68 million people per day, that’s about 1 percent of the world’s population
7AWr TIL Facebook lies about friends “liking” pages when showing ads. Next time I see one, I’ll ignore it even more