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TIL an online gamer solved a missing child case in the USA remotely from his bedroom in England

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EBaw TIL Netflix was forced to add subtitles to all their releases after the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) filed suit against them, citing their lack of closed captioning for streaming video as a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act .
b9WvE TIL that the city of Denver was originally awarded the honor of hosting the 1976 Winter Olympics. The people of Colorado, however, voted against funding the games, and Innsbruck ended up hosting them. This is the only time in history that a city has been awarded the games, but rejected them later.
d8Jed TIL that the oldest military unit still in existence is the Spanish 1st regiment "Immemorial del Rey"
xydw TIL in Algeria, the largest country in Africa and 35th in world population, women make up 70% of the country’s lawyers and 60% of its judges, as well as dominating the field of medicine. Increasingly, women are contributing more to household income than men. 60% of university students are women.
1glO TIL that the inventor of the mobile phone made the first ever call to his rival to gloat.