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TIL Comcast disabled fast-forwarding for their on-demand service to force people to watch commercials

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7ryMp TIL the idiom "a few bad apples" is actually "a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel" and refers to the fact that even if the majority of a group of people are 'good', if there are a few 'bad' or 'corrupt' people in the group, it invalidates everything else.
R5nva TIL The standardization of industrial farming has led to a 75% drop in crop genetic diversity.
4XdJg TIL That the Apollo 11 journey to the moon and back only lasted 8 days.
b9jnE TIL about Twilight sleep, a procedure used for labor in the early 1900s. Women were drugged, restrained in a dark room with gauze on their eyes and ears plugged. The purpose of the drugs was to cause the women to forget the childbirth, not prevent pain, as they were still conscience the whole time.
4Xwpo TIL that for John Wick: Parabellum (2019) five dogs played Halle Berry's two sidekicks and she did the regular training herself so that on-set, the dogs actually followed her and no one had to give commands from off-camera