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TIL Netflix monitors BitTorrent to decide which shows to purchase

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ADr0g TIL the Summer Olympics have only been cancelled three times since the beginning of the 20th century and all three because of war.
X0eQX TIL Sweden and Norway has its own definition of a mile, being 10 kilometers. As a swede i always thought that this was the standard in the whole world except The US.
GaG4 TIL: Japanese gang lords barred from entry to the US were given liver transplants at UCLA. During those years over 400 patients died waiting for livers in the LA area.
gMoEb TIL learned that early English puritans named their children some brilliantly insane names, with top hits including If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-for-Thee-Thou-Hads’t-Been-Damned Barebone, No-Merit Vinall, Sorry Scott and many more.
R5R1j TIL that the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company pioneered the development and production of the Ejection Seat after its founder, Sir James Martin, lost his partner, Capt Valentin Baker, in a plane crash in 1942