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TIL Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Numan
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Today I learned Amazon remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, that were distributed through the Kindle store in 2009. This chilling example of potentially malicious behavior would have never been possible without DRM.
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TIL that movie studios train EAGLES and HAWKS to take out drones trying to snap production pics
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TIL There exists a weatherphenomenon called a "rainbomb" and it has killed 137 people on DeltaFlight 191 on August 2, 1985. The scientific name is "wet microburst" and now there are photos.
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TIL Italian poet Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy who was exiled and sentenced to death by political rivals in Florence, was posthumously exonerated in May of 2021 at a virtual hearing in Florence.
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TIL that the photons that light up the earth are not 8 min. 20 sec old but thousands of years old trapped inside the Sun and recently freed.