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TIL that Snapchat trolled Facebook on April Fool's day with a 'Facebook' filter, designed to recreate Russian bots on Facebook deployed during 2016 US Presidential election. The filter placed a Facebook UI around the photo with Cyrillic script-like text and showed likes from “your mum” and “a bot”.

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p8wZ TIL that since the making of the documentary “Jesus Camp”, one of the pastors from Kids on Fire announced that due to negative reactions to the camp after the film, the camp which was held once a year for three weeks has been discontinued indefinitely and will be replaced by other events.
E1Eg0 TIL that Los Angeles County libraries allow kids 21 and under to read away what they owe in late fees at a rate of $5 per hour. Since the program launched last year, LA County libraries have logged more than 50,000 reading sessions and reinstated more than 13,000 previously blocked accounts.
GYAPg TIL about a book about 'Vienna without jews' written in 1922. A mere 16 years later, jews were hunted down under Hitler's command
k941 TIL Emperor Haile Selassie, believed by Rastafarians to be a god, was presumably among the few historical figures ever to have to deny his divinity.
woGn7 TIL The first song to use guitar distortion was Rocket 88 by Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm in 1951. Their amplifier had been damaged and they tried to fix it by stuffing it with newspaper, which gave it a distorted sound. The band were pleased with the sound and decided to keep it on the song.