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TIL that Free Speech Does NOT Protect Cyberharassment… Online perpetrators can be criminally prosecuted for criminal threats, cyberstalking, cyberharassment, sexual invasions of privacy and bias intimidation. They can be sued for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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69Xk7 TIL that Teddy Bear originiates from an incident in 1902 where President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt refused shooting a black bear.
8DwL TIL that a Johns Hopkins professor procured 34 gallons of whiskey during prohibition for his research. He observed that subjects got better at throwing darts as they got drunker.
oBekr TIL that the Southern Pacific Comapy, while best known for its railroad operations, also owned and operated telegraph and telephone lines under the name Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony, which would later become the telecommunications company known by the acronym "Sprint."
V95Z TIL Twitter has enough money in the bank to run for 412 years with current losses.
NRnE TIL South Korea withdrew its opposition to Hashima Island being made a UNESCO world heritage site, on the condition Japan acknowledge its use of Korean forced laborers. Immediately after the site was approved, Japan’s Foreign Minister backtracked on earlier statements.