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TIL there's a labour union for Youtubers

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OPO1 TIL that NBC and AT&T used corporate and government bullying to destroy the life of the inventor of FM radio, leading to his suicide
jNWLj TIL that baseball players have tried to fool base runners into an out by using a fake ball made with a frozen, painted potato. The hidden potato trick has a hundred year history, and was last used in a 1987 minor league game.
PYmDL TIL that Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3 was given shorter hair for the convenience of video games: it would have taken more processing power of the PlayStation 2 to animate longer realistic hair and the game designers used the processing power towards increasing monster numbers instead.
Lwpp TIL 80% of Canadian women use contraception, only 64% of American women do.
rNeZw TIL about Arthur Arndt, a German physician whose family became the largest known group of Jews to survive by hiding in Nazi Germany.