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TIL Mark Zuckerberg said a voting mechanism that says whether posts are good or bad is ‘not something that we think is good for the world’

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6dXX TIL on this day, Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government. President John Adams later signed it into law.
EVm0 TIL that after arriving in Los Angeles at 19, a broke Charlize Theron tried to cash a check from her mother to pay for rent, but the teller refused. She got into a shouting match with him, drawing the attention of a talent agent behind her, who introduced her to casting agents and an acting school.
8eyBK TIL about Neerja Bhanot, the 23-Year-Old Indian Flight Attendant Who Sacrificed Her Life Shielding Three Children and Saved 359 Passengers During the Hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan
pgL8 TIL that the inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough had to prove that Vaseline actually worked by burning or putting acid on himself in front of crowds and use Vaseline to heal it. He would the show the healed burns at his later events.
oo7A TIL that the NFL moved the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona because they refuse to make Martin Luther King day an official state holiday