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TIL Carlos Santana is anti-trans

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1aGxX TIL that in New York City, while its delicious bagels are not subject to a sales tax if they are whole, buying an ‘altered’ (i.e. sliced or with cream cheese) bagel will increase the sales tax by 8¢.
9wxXM TIL that Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas", was not published under Plath's name until 1967 and was not published in the United States until 1971, eight years after her death.
d8G7B TIL of the Sony rootkit scandal: In 2005, Sony shipped 22,000,000 CDs which, when inserted into a Windows computer, installed unn-removable and highly invasive malware. The software hid from the user, prevented all CDs from being copied, and sent listening history to Sony.
J1jPm TIL Melvin Williams played The Deacon on The Wire and Williams criminal history as a Baltimore drug kingpin inspired much of the series. After his release from prison Williams became a community activist.
ep05J TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical planet, ten times larger than Earth, that may lie in the outer reaches of the solar system and would explain a peculiar cluster of trans-Neptunian objects.