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TIL That AWS's acceptable use policy has an exclusion in case of a zombie apocalypse. A widespread infection transmitted via bites would be excluded if "...that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume human living flesh"

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6EWM7 TIL in addition to the protests & death threats Ruby Bridges had to face as the first black kid in a white school, her father lost his job, the local grocery store stopped serving the family, & her sharecropper grandparents were turned off their land.
ADrLg TIL The magnetic north pole moves around 55 kilometres (34 miles) a year. It crossed the international date line in 2017, left the Canadian Arctic and is headed to Siberia. This presents a problem for compasses in smartphones and other electronics.
JYgV8 TIL the founder of Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, hated how commercialized the holiday had become. "A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world."
OoMVa A team of scientists has built a box that can suck water out of very low-humidity desert air.
d856B TIL about a bollock knife, widely used in the middle ages, named after the ahem decorative handle...