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TIL US Cell Carriers are (and/or were) selling REAL TIME location data without consent to 3rd parties including advertisers and even bounty hunters!

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kOOm TIL that approximately 20,000 cancer cases per year could be prevented by increasing fruit and vegetable consumption by one serving each per day.
PMMV TIL that there is an apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves; in addition to mind control, it is capable of making people hear voices, smell odors, see images, feel sensations, experience emotions imposed by someone else.
7MBr TIL the Danish government recreated the entire country of Denmark in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale, made of 4000 billion bricks. Players, exploiting a loophole, blew it up and planted an American flag.
455o TIL Farmers forcibly bypass the adolescent years of fruit trees by attaching a mature branch to a newly planted stem. The process known as grafting can also be used to grow two plants together such as tomatoes and potatoes on one plant. http://ift.tt/2rGjQpu
P1NpE TIL that stray dogs in Chernobyl have managed to survive for 40 years in a radioactive environment due to genetic adaptations that help them cope with the radiation.