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TIL AT&T has a center in San Francisco (dubbed “Room 641A”) whose sole purpose is to monitor domestic and global internet traffic. There are potentially ten to twenty of these across the country.

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PKBg TIL A Pennsylvania man electrocuted his wife using nipple clamps and tried to pass it off as an accident. He is serving 20-40 years in prison.
4XK1w TIL The vast majority of the worlds party glitter is bought by a an unknown cooperation for completely unknown purposes. When a NYT investigated, she was completely stonewalled and was only told that she would never guess it and would not know it was glitter if she saw it in use.
Yp4RP TIL about Juliane Diller who, at 17, survived a plane explosion then fell to the ground still strapped to her seat. She then survived by following a river for nine days until she came across some loggers who rescued her.
Nw51 TIL that in 2011, Anonymous started attacking websites hosting child porn. Stating “Our demands are simple. Remove all child pornography content from your servers. It does not matter who you are, if we find you to be hosting, promoting, or supporting child pornography, you will become a target"
gXNW TIL that jurors can find a defendant “not guilty” regardless of evidence if they believe the law broken is unjust.