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TIL That RiteAid secretly used AI from 2012-2020 on their security cameras to identify shoplifters, without notifying anyone. They would send pictures to the employees of who to watch and often misidentified people of color more than others.

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490N TIL An Ohio Judge, who each year would move a drunken-driving trial from his courtroom to a local high school as a cautionary tale to students, was arrested himself on a DUI after he hit a County bus, failed to stop, then refused a sobriety test after being pulled over by police
vdYx TIL that Bea Arthur (Golden Girls Dorothy) was a truck driving Marine.
VPb4 TIL that insulting the Thai King or anything related to the monarchy of Thailand can get you imprisoned with serious jail time
O8Oa TIL A couple named their child Dovahkiin (Dragonborn) and received a lifetime of free Bethesda games
nWrQo TIL the term “420” originated from a high school in San Rafael, CA