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TIL the FBI is recommending adblockers as necessary

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loeK7 TIL that movie trailers were originally shown after the feature film. That's why they are called "trail"ers. Theaters quickly noticed that people would simply leave when the main feature was complete, so they began showing the trailers before the movie instead; the name just stuck.
BgxLL TIL that some tribes in Ethiopia view pregnant women as "corrupted by evil sprits." When the mothers are about to go into labour, they are sent out into the wilderness alone to deliver their own child in order to purify themselves
9gjQ TIL that our solar system is ‘unusual’ in that it only has one star, more than half of the stars in the sky are binary or triple, Jupiter could have been our second star
1ML8 TIL The English monarch, William III was so broke he levied a tax on properties with too many windows to increase his revenue. This caused property owners to brick up any excess windows to avoid paying the tax. This is the origin of the term “Daylight Robbery”
9wv7Q TIL about John Wilkes, a British politician, who once lost an election even after bribing a ship's captain to take a load of opposition voters to Norway.