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TIL that “The Elf on the Shelf” is criticized for teaching kids that it’s okay to be spied on, another tool of the surveillance state

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nW6Zd TIL that in AFL football the longest kick in history was 98 metres (107 yards) kicked by Albert Thurgood. It’s apparently hotly debated though with Fred Fanning allegedly kicked 105.5 metres (116 yards). This all happened before 1950!
MexgV TIL Aerosmith's Joe Perry use to keep a roadie by the side of the stage instructed to give him a toot of cocaine through a straw whenever he wandered over pretending to need technical assistance
VMMLQ TIL that roly-poly bugs are not insects at all, they are isopods.
wBVE TIL Two privacy researchers from the University of Texas were able to unmask Netflix users’ political and sexual orientation by taking the “anonymized” movie ratings (released as part of Netflix Prize) and comparing them against non-anonymized movie ratings posted at IMDB.
Bdrk TIL the Ku Klux Klan lobbied for the first Gun Control Laws in the United States.