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TIL TED revokes your TED fellowship if you don’t attend every event of the conference, per the fellowship agreement. Writer Eddie Huang later went on to compare TED to a “Scientology summer camp”.

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rRAbx TIL After the 2003 film The Cat in the Hat was released and panned by critics, the widow of Dr.Seuss vowed to never allow his work to be adapted in live action again.
jNRLN TIL there is a man who has been visiting the same fish for almost 30 years that comes to him whenever he dives in the ocean.
5PZ9 TIL that mosquitoes have killed more humans than all the wars in history
waAJ TIL that a Role Playing Game company (Steve Jackson Games) was raided by the Secret Service partly because they were developing a game about hacking. This was the main influence in the foundation of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a non-profit digital rights group.
4XAOJ TIL the guy who voiced aol’s “you’ve got mail.” is now an Uber driver.