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TIL of Jeff Hall, a white nationalist indoctrinating his 12 year old son in his beliefs & teaching him to shoot at the border. One day, his son retrieved his gun & shot him in the head.

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dAV8 TIL that CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”