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TIL of the term "Ag-gag". Anti-whistleblower laws passed by the states that make it illegal to film or photograph animal rights abuses on factory farms.

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wL4y6 TIL circa 2018, family guy cost $2,000,000 to produce per episode, and at some point each voice actor was being paid $300,000 an episode
OokYa TIL in September 2010, California passed the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution bill, creating the first day in U.S. history to be named after an Asian American.
4ZQ6 TIL Whenever you fly abroad, you give your implicit consent for someone to inspect your Laptop and similar devices and there’s nothing you can do about it.
4XOW6 TIL The East India Company controlled its own army, which by 1800 comprised some 200,000 soldiers, more than twice the membership of the British Army at that time. The army was used to carry out officially sanctioned looting within Indian States, along with forced over-taxation.
Vr7p TIL male penguins have been observed having sex with other male penguins, having sex with dead penguins and having sex with unwilling female penguins. When this was discovered in 1912, it was considered too lewd to publish.