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TIL that privacy self-management (i.e., the principle that people individually manage their privacy via notice and consent) is based on multiple "fundamentally wrong" assumptions.

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oBKbY TIL the New York Yankees baseball team began as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901, before moving to New York in 1903 where the team was re-named the New York Highlanders. The team was not re-named the Yankees until a decade later in 1913.
nePoB TIL the common criminal name is Jeremy
e05e4 TIL that up until the end of 2013 russian soldiers used "foot wraps" instead of socks for 300 years. The rationale for using foot wraps was, that soldiers needed to be able to be fully dressed within 45 seconds.
b9Eg9 TIL Italian dictator Benito Mussolini had a pet lion
p8dvG The fire at the cathedral in April appears to have caused widespread lead dust contamination, prompting a lawsuit against the city.