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TIL Thomas Paine, the man who inspired American independence, “was violently opposed to all international war, which he considered a conspiracy to subjugate and defraud peoples”

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4k8aJ TIL that titular typing tutor of 80s PC program "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" was the creation of one of the software developers, who sought to present a "friendly face" for a generation of very new and very wary computer users. Mavis was inspired by a Haitian-born woman named Renee L’Esperance.
vo4L TIL People who play video games are more likely to be lucid dreamers (have control over their actions in dreams) than those who don’t
WDkN TIL Before 9/11, there were only 16 people on the USA’s ‘NO Fly List’, today there are 99,427.
PWkg TIL The Economist received a letter from Boston protesting their usage of “niggardly,” an adjective meaning stingy or miserly, because it sounded like the racial slur. The magazine, based in Britain, responded with, “Why do we get such letters only from America?”
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