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TIL The FBI can wiretap almost anything with the click of a button using DCSNet.

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neWJd TIL that banging your head against a wall burns 150 cal per hour
apDb TIL a supplement that increases milk production called Fenugreek, has a side effect that may cause your baby to smell like maple syrup.
1awGV TIL Michael Caine saw an Afrikaans foreman punch a black labourer in the face while filming Zulu (1964). He swore to never film in South Africa again while Apartheid existed; he kept his word.
O4wR TIL Blackwater’s top manager issued a threat “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq”
rReRe TIL about Contranyms. Terms that, depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings.