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TIL that Facebook and Instagram have an irrevocable, unlimited license to sell your photos, location, personal details and metadata - that’s everything you share on their services. Sharing your professional photographs means that you’re not the sole OWNER of the photo; they can sell it too.

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LQQ69 TIL that a Cuban military pilot defected to the US in a MIG-23, and later piloted a Cessna BACK to Cuba to exfiltrate his wife and children.
8a59G TIL there was a 1920 novel about Abraham Lincoln's mother titled 'The Matrix.'
b95wa TIL Alan Shepard was 47 during Apollo 14 and was told he was "too old" to walk on the moon as he was the oldest astronaut to have flown in space at the time. He hadn't flown anything for ten years since 1961 and had been diagnosed with a rare condition of the inner ear called Meniere's disease
LkxdV TIL the Louvre put up signs in Mandarin (and only in Mandarin), telling Chinese tourists not to shit on the floor. Tourist sites in Egypt face similar problems, as does Disneyland Shanghai
KOpaJ TIL a Cure for Malaria was found by Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou amongst 1600 year old Taoist manuscripts titled "The emergency perscriptions kept up ones sleave"