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TIL Netflix’s library is selected based on what’s popular on piracy sites.

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5YGKB TIL Ivy league schools all had ties to the Opium trade in the late 19th century with major benefactors using their drug money to fund libraries, societies and even Princeton itself. Undergrads even began running opium dens from Boston to New York until a Harvard student OD'd in 1889.
kJ4Xe TIL that in 1957 the US launched Project Pluto, a plan to design and build a "doomsday" cruise missile (SLAM) that would be nuclear powered and carry multiple hydrogen bombs, spreading radiation along its path from the engine. It was loud enough to kill people in its path with sound.
j6ZM TIL Quentin Tarantino lied about his age to work as an usher at a porno movie theater.
WkxDN TIL about Jonny Kim who is a Navy SEAL, a Harvard Medical Doctor, and a NASA Astronaut
b9Rb4 TIL that Internet and dial-up Email were being used by ordinary people as early as 1984. Slow adoption was the challenge, not technology.