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TIL about the Nissan S Cargo. (Yes, it looks like a snail)

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wBVE TIL Two privacy researchers from the University of Texas were able to unmask Netflix users’ political and sexual orientation by taking the “anonymized” movie ratings (released as part of Netflix Prize) and comparing them against non-anonymized movie ratings posted at IMDB.
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Egm0d TIL that British actress Naomi Watt's father Peter Watts was a sound engineer who worked with Pink Floyd.He can be heard on the track "Brain Damage",where he contributed the repeated laughter
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