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TIL in 2010, a school board gave Macbooks to students, secretly spied on them, and punished them later at school.

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EoD7 TIL that the Pholcidae spider (Daddy long leg) preys upon venomous spiders like the black widow.
0dPOM TIL the first actor to ever earn a $1 million salary for a single film is Elizabeth Taylor for Cleopatra (1963). She also secured 10% of the gross profits & add-ons if the filming ran over, which it did. In total, she earned around $7 million for the movie ($69 million in 2023 money).
woKY8 TIL Nazi General Loringhoven was inside the Führerbunker during the last days of Nazi Germany. He attempted to escape, was captured by Allied forces, and later became a NATO commander, retiring as Inspector General of the Armed Forces of West Germany in 1973.
E1Eg0 TIL that Los Angeles County libraries allow kids 21 and under to read away what they owe in late fees at a rate of $5 per hour. Since the program launched last year, LA County libraries have logged more than 50,000 reading sessions and reinstated more than 13,000 previously blocked accounts.
kOmX1 Amazon is relaxing its policy around employees using weed, according to a new blog post, and will no longer enforce marijuana drug tests for any employee who isn’t also regulated by the Department of Transportation, like a delivery driver.