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TIL Pornhub and Youporn will begin offering HTTPS encryption by default to fight against ISPs being able to sell your browsing history.

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ADZB TIL the Pyrenean ibex is the only species ever to become ‘un-extinct’ after being cloned in 2009 – although the clone lived only 7 minutes.
61B7 TIL Stephen King’s website has a “Dollar Babies” page - stories he’s willing to sell to film students for $1.
PYA9g TIL Zephany Nurse is a South African girl who was kidnapped as a baby. 17 years later, she was reunited with her real family when she coincidentally started going to the same school as her younger sister. The girls were inseparable and had a strong resemblance. A DNA test confirmed their relation.
epjyD TIL that a TV show accidentally filmed a murder. During a 1975 ITV documentary on young runaways in London, a boy died. The camera crew realized that it had filmed many of those involved. The documentary doubled in length to discuss the case. Three people received life sentences for the murder.
1aEV4 TIL that kudzu, the horribly invasive species of vine in the American southeast, was imported from Japan in the 1800's.