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TIL Many of the coupons featured on TLC’s “Extreme Couponing” were fraudulent.

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pY91b TIL singer Cyndi Lauper found the original lyrics of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” misogynistic, so she rewrote the song for her version to be a feminist anthem for young women
e0Jg TIL that, during Prohibition, alcohol was legal if it was used for religious purposes. This lead to many bootleggers posing as rabbis, who sold sacramental champagne, creme de menthe, and brandy.
WvRY TIL that a StingRay tracker mimics a wireless carrier cell tower in order to force nearby phones & cellular data devices to connect to it then it can extract & write to metadata on your device and an operator can conduct specific surveillance operations on just the target device; and it’s legal.
l7BLA TIL Elizabeth Holmes' father was a VP at Enron
WkX7Y TIL Florida man Arnold Abbott had been feeding street people at a beach weekly from 1991 till he died age 94 in 2019; he refused to stop even when a FL law limiting public food sharing came out in 2014. FLPD showed up when Abbot was passing out food; an officer demanded: "Drop that plate right now."