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TIL about The Uncensored Library- a Minecraft server and map released by Reporters Without Borders as an attempt to circumvent censorship in countries without freedom of the press.

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R7w7w TIL The Starbucks at the CIA headquarters protects the identities of its CIA patrons by never writing any names on the drinks, putting workers through intense background check processes, and not using reward cards in fear of the data of the card befalling into the wrong hands.
4kk4R TIL evidence of persistence hunting primarily comes from a single researcher and has no where near the support in Anthropology as it does in pop-science and running circles.
N7Re6 TIL black stones in Go are manufactured to be slightly larger compared to the white ones, to compensate for the optical illusion of white objects looking bigger when placed adjacent to black objects.
oRNQr TIL that in 1851, Scotsman Sir David Brewster invented a 3D photographic device called the Lenticular Stereoscope, which was used to take thousands of 3D photos of people in countries such as Japan.
Ggm7 TIL train attendants on the Shanghai-Beijing bullet train are required to smile while showing eight of their front teeth.