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Today I Learned that there's an event in Hawaii called Lahaina Noon, where the sun passes directly overhead.

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JQYk TIL Horror director Eli Roth showed villagers in a remote native village deep in the Peruvian Amazon the controversial 1980 horror film “Cannibal Holocaust”. To show them what a movie was. The villagers thought it was a comedy and the funniest thing they’ve ever seen.
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jg1Q TIL in 2011, in response to employees’ complaints about work-life balance and the expectations of answering after-hours email from home, Volkswagen agreed to implement a rule restricting company email functionality on the firm’s BlackBerry smartphones from 6:30pm-7:30am.