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TIL Hackers Could Launch Their Own Satellites to Create an ‘Uncensorable Internet’.

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gMD04 TIL the origin of the word person in law is persona in Latin which means an actor's mask, later it was applied to the part played by a man in life, then it meant the man himself. As if to say we can never know the man, but only the part he plays and the mask he wears.
bpO7 TIL, before the company was seized by federal regulators in 2008, the final CEO of Washington Mutual made $19 million at the position. His tenure was less than three weeks.
nL59 TIL lebanese star Mia Khalifa has been received death threats, including having her head cut off for doing porn
ekxJ TIL in 1885 when Nikola Tesla was working for Thomas Edison, he claimed he could redesign Edison’s inefficient motor and generators. Edison said there’d be $50K US for Tesla if he got it done. After a few months he did and Edison said “Tesla you do not understand our American humor” Tesla resigned.
9YX0p TIL that there are photosynthesizing animals - and they are already dying out :(