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TIL Emmy winners don't actually get to keep the statuette and instead have to buy it for $400 if they choose.

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b9oe7 TIL: GPS signals are being spoofed in some areas of Moscow: “the fake signal, which seems to center on the Kremlin, relocates anyone nearby to Vnukovo Airport, 32 km away. The scale of the problem did not become apparent until people began trying to play Pokemon Go.”
aY0b TIL that after a ride on England’s first escalator, customers were offered a brandy to revive them of their ordeal.
VBlGm TIL The stirring theme from 'The Last of the Mohicans' was originally written to accompany a Loch Ness Monster museum exhibit
epkKD TIL that a slice of pizza contains a single serving of vegetable.
Ra84 TIL a Columbine survivor and author who sued and won against big pharmaceuticals for their part in the massacre has been unlawfully locked up in a mental hospital and drugged with the same substances he spoke out against