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TIL about Aaron Swartz, one of the architects of Creative Commons, creator of Internet Archives’ Open Library and founder of Watchdog.net

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DkRg TIL Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is the first billionaire to fall off the Forbes billionaire list because of charitable giving: “You have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.”
vOY8 TIL a gay bar in Australia was given the legal right to ban heterosexuals
GYVog TiL The average millennial credit score is 659
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07A1 TIL HAL Laboratory’s (creators of Kirby and Super Smash Bros.) name was created to put them one step ahead of IBM with each letter