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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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69WbW TIL about Intercollegiate Meat Judging. Where American Universities compete against one another to see which team can best evaluate cuts of beef, pork and lamb based on criteria such as quality, yield grading, and eye-balling the quantity of fat v. muscle.
VBE50 TIL. Physiologist Giles Brindley, in 1983 presented his treatment for erectile disfunction by injecting himself before his talk and dropping his pants to show the crowd of urologists.
4k6ng TIL Groucho Marx was back in vogue in 1972, and performed at Carnegie Hall, where he reminisced of his nearly 70 years in show biz. A double album record was remarkably successful, Grammy nominated, and placed in the Library of Congress. His accompanist was an then unknown Marvin Hamlisch.
OxD1 TIL OJ Simpson’s Player of the Year trophy was bought by a man who melted it down to make pins for people who donated to battered women’s shelters.
p8Ro4 TIL one of the only reasons the world got Mark Hamill's masterful performance as Luke Skywalker is because Robert Englund (of Freddy Krueger fame) happened to see auditions for A New Hope taking place and suggested to Hamill that he should audition, believing him to be perfect for the role