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TIL the accusations of Facebook secretly eavesdropping on their users’ conversations to better target advertising to those users was started by a mass communications professor who later denied the claim

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rmbx TIL That for the Super Bowl Final they hire a cameraman to run onto the pitch to shoot the jingle “I’m going to Disney World!” of whoever Disney paid to say it if they win. Millions of dollars ride on his shoulders.
rjbW TIL that most of the modern global poultry industry relies on a single breed of chicken from a farm in Connecticut that won the national “Chicken of Tomorrow” competition in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
DQaMr TIL if you're a female you can literally push the poop out through your vagina
L8x0 TIL multiple case reports exist of adolescents injecting themselves with elemental mercury after having seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine and incorrectly believing they can convert their bones to metal by injecting themselves with liquid metal.
mRKO TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s personal assistant on the movie Collateral Damage was a 23-year-old college drop-out trying to get into the business named Bill Hader