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TIL that Inventor Lewis Latimer, not only made Thomas Edison's Light Bulb more efficient & practical, he invented an Apparatus for Cooling & Disinfecting, making rooms more sanitary & climate-controlled. He also improved the design of elevators & co-invented (1874) a toilet for train cars.

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Nw51 TIL that in 2011, Anonymous started attacking websites hosting child porn. Stating “Our demands are simple. Remove all child pornography content from your servers. It does not matter who you are, if we find you to be hosting, promoting, or supporting child pornography, you will become a target"
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