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TIL that Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, left Facebook in 2017 over a dispute on WhatsApp monetization and claims he was coached to mislead EU regulators about data merging. In 2018, he supported #DeleteFacebook, saying it was the right time as pressure mounted on the company.

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6PPl TIL The US government is building a center to record all online information and communication on earth. It can house all the data on earth ~40 times over and is on the scale of yottabytes. 1 yottabyte=1 trillion terabytes. It is scheduled to be completed Sep. 2013
Qovd TIL homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they felt gay
R7bjQ TIL some penguins have been recorded engaging in prostitution by trading sex with single males for nest-stones.
pVrO TIL that Santa Claus is real in the Marvel Universe and is a very powerful mutant.
KjLJ TIL that Nestle was accused of getting third world mothers hooked on formula, which is less healthy and more expensive than breast milk.