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TIL The Show “Dirty Jobs” is Being Cancelled to Make Room for Shows like “Amish Mafia”. I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

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Ooa TIL: That at MIT you can earn your “Pirate Certificate” by taking the physical education courses of pistol, archery, sailing, and fencing.
BZ7D TIL that during WWII, actress Veronica Lake changed her image in order to encourage women working in factories to adopt more practical, safer hairstyles, even though doing so may have harmed her career.
5Yg98 TIL the U.S. Supreme Cοurt ruled Jοhn D. Rοckefeller's οil empire to be an illegal mοnοpοly in 1911. It subsequently split into 34 smaller cοmpanies. Hοwever, thοse cοmpanies have slowly been turning into monοpolies once more, leading to BP, ExxοnMοbil and Chevrοn.
8KvV TIL Sture Bergwall, Sweden’s most notorious serial killer who was incarcerated after confessing to at least 30 murders and crimes such as rape and cannibal, was later found to have been a manipulative liar. He never actually killed a single person.
daZ7 TIL India is launching its mass electronic surveillance program in 2014. It will give 9 Indian govt. agencies—incl. the tax dept—the power to access, in real-time, phone conversations, text, emails, web search data & social media activity WITHOUT the approval of the courts or parliament.