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TIL about the Scunthorpe problem, which is the unintentional blocking of online content because of a censored string. AOL refused service to Scunthorpe, England because their filters kept censoring the word 'cunt'.

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9kLB TIL there’s a valve in fetal hearts that diverts blood away from the lungs while in utero. It begins closing at the first breath as the baby gets oxygen from it’s own lungs for the first time.
Ab1x TIL Jon Stewart and his wife founded an animal sanctuary in New Jersey to rescue abused factory farm animals
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9EMX TIL the man who tried to stop John Wilkes Booth from killing Lincoln, Henry Rathbone, went all “Shining” on his family and killed his wife and attempted to kill his children in a fit of rage.