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TIL - A Red Alert to Humanity - "If the tech is free, you are the product."

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GYZQQ TIL that Fez's name in That 70's Show was in the script as F.E.S. as in "Foreign Exchange Student"
1aJV8 Babies don't poop like they did in 1926, and, as it turns out, it might be a big concern.
QNWDa TIL Mickey Mantle insisted that promoters of his baseball card show appearances include lesser-known Yankees of his era such as Moose Skowron or Hank Bauer with him so they could also earn money for their autographs.
166V7 TIL Martha Gellhorn was the only woman to land on the Normandy beaches (alongside 150,000 men). She was a journalist but her request to come along had been denied, so she stowed away in a toilet and then disguised herself as a stretcher bearer
VaJZ TIL in WW2 the US Navy added poison to their torpedo fuel, as the torps were fuelled with Ethanol (Alcohol), and too many sailors were getting hammered on “Torpedo Juice” - a mixture of 2 parts torp fuel and 3 parts pineapple juice. They changed poisons after too many sailors went blind.