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TIL during and immediately after the US Civil War, many -- like Frederick Douglass -- referred to it as the Slaveholders' Rebellion

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D1dKV TIL planned obsolescence is illegal in France; it is a crime to intentionally shorten the lifespan of a product with the aim of making customers replace it. In early 2018, French authorities used this law to investigate reports that Apple deliberately slowed down older iPhones via software updates.
V0Xk TIL that Toy Story was originally meant to end with Barbie saving the day- But Mattel wouldn’t permit the character to be used in that kind of role.
PJgn TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout named David Hahn attempted to make a neutron “gun,” and dangerously irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until his arrest.
neDxY TIL Shouting FIRE! in a crowded theater isn’t illegal. In U.S. v. Schenck, SCOTUS decided a pamphlet opposing the draft in WWI posed a "clear and present danger" to a nation at war. But it was overturned 40 years later.
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