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TIL The JSON Software License is non-free because it has a clause mandating: “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil”

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9w0P7 TIL of Shinkolobwe, a mine located in the Haut-Katanga of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It produced the most economical Uranium that was used for the Manhattan Project and subsequent nuclear weapons produced by the United States in the 1940s and 50s.
NXDb TIL that a man mistakenly identified as a rapist served nearly 11 years in prison before the truth came out, and now spends his time travelling with the victim to promote awareness of false eyewitness testimony
VM0O4 TIL Many polls and surveys are not interested in your response. They are not polls at all. Instead they are marketing pushes disguised as polls that steer your thinking through manipulative questioning. Its called "push polling".
Yjjr TIL the man who made the “Heart Shaped Box” video for Nirvana was afraid to make another music video with them and said he wouldn’t do it. Kurt responded, “Well, if you don’t do it, I’ll never do another video again with anybody.” And he never did.
5Ywn TIL several Astronauts, NASA, CIA, FBI, Army, Air Force officials and rocket scientists believe some UFOs are under intelligent control - but not from Earth.