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TIL that your Iphone keeps a 30 day record of everywhere you have been and for how long you where there.

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awZmy TIL that Ben Sliney, former FAA National Operations Manager, made the choice to ground all planes in US airspace on his first day on the job, September 11, 2001.
neR4o TIL In 2014, the UK based EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) named Rakuten as “the world’s biggest online retailer of whale meat and elephant ivory, calling on the company to stop selling the items.”
PoKL TIL the small cloth placed over the back of your chair on a plane or a train is called an ‘antimacassar’. They are so named because they were originally used to protect the fabric of the chair from macassar oil; a very famous hair product in the Victorian period.
9Yp6M TIL Prince Yasuhiko, the perpetrator of Nanjing massacre was never charged after the war because of he was member of the Imperial family. General Matsui was executed despite forbidding his men to loot and expressed grief in his diary when his order was disobeyed.
P1LXG TIL that Vitalik Buterin created the Ethereum cryptocurrency because his warlock World of Warcraft character was nerfed and on that day he realized what horrors centralized services can bring