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TIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued a MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.

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e0vnJ TIL that Great Britain is made up of 6289 islands.
M7Jm8 TIL Werner Herzog threatened to shoot Klaus Kinski—and then himself—on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God to prevent Kinski from walking off the job.
MeED8 TIL that a research team figured out how to produce a fossil in as little as five days
0wBZM TIL of the Samaritan Revolts. Centuries after the Jewish Revolts, the Samaritans in fact became the majority demographic in the Holy Land and revolted against the Byzantines, resulting in nearly total annihilation and their modern obscurity.
Pw7e TIL that a Colombian program called kangaroo care, where prematurely born babies are kept in constant skin-to-skin contact with parents, has shown success over hospital incubators in reducing infant mortality.