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TIL the person who wrote “The Internet is for Porn” also wrote “Let It Go.”

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j6wNQ TIL that the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has by far the largest budget of any US intelligence agency, while having virtually no federal workforce.
5Y7Z8 TIL in 1971 a woman asked a judge to sterilize her “somewhat retarded” 15-year old daughter without her knowledge, which he granted that day without a hearing. She later sued him, but it was ruled he was immune because he ordered it as a judicial function, even though he ignored due process.
gMmVX TIL the Daughters of the Confederacy has a children's auxiliary. The Children of the Confederacy is dedicated to teaching blood descendants of Confederate soldiers the glory of the Lost Cause and that slave owners were quite nice really.
W70YX TIL shortly after the rock band Great White began performing in 2003 at The Station in Rhode Island, their tour manager set off pyrotechnics whose sparks ignited flammable acoustic foam. Within six minutes of the ignition, the entire building was engulfed in flames—100 attendees died.
b6okE TIL - The Hamilton Pulsar P1 was the first digital watch, launched in 1972 for $2100 (>$12,000 today). Later in the 70's digital watches were around $10, and in the 80's they were given away free in cereal boxes.