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TIL of Francis E. Dec, one of the first widely known “targeted individuals”. A former lawyer, he spent the last 25 years of his life writing and distributing rants about a “mad deadly worldwide communist gangster computer god” that controlled people’s minds and planned to take over the world.

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l76oV TIL The Earth gets about one pound heavier every second due to absorbing meteoroids and other space debris
gMB7b TIL In the 1800s, feeding lobster to prisoners was considered “cruel and unusual punishment, like making people eat rats”
bma9 TIL that, for unclear reasons, engineers and engineering students have a significantly above-average likelihood to engage in terrorist activity
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