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TIL that in 2011, a man in Australia was convicted of child pornography after a digital copy of Victorian era erotic literature was found in his laptop

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bLWE TIL that Isaac Asimov once said “I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory (Israel) only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there.”
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