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TIL that Google is claiming users have no expectation of privacy in their legal defenses, while promising users their privacy is Google’s top priority everywhere else.

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BgKJk TIL that from 1929 to 1955, the chairman of the NAACP was a Caucasian man named Walter White.
B4Mk TIL Steve Jobs used a loophole in the medical registration system to get his non-essential liver transplant before 16,000 other people who were already on the list for years.
X04QR TIL Polish-born American Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski was most likely intersex.
Ookgg TIL during the Revolutionary War the smallpox epidemic threatened the troops of G. Washington so badly he forbade inoculating troops fearing that doing so would make too many sick and leave the army without sufficient strength. Washington himself had been exposed when young making him immune.
e0RY6 TIL a man falsely imprisoned for 10 years spent most of his time at the library to study law and prove his innocence, and then became a lawyer to help free other people who have been falsely convicted.