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TIL, In 2007 Comcast installed software/equipment on its networks to selectively interfere with customers’ TCP/IP connections which throttled upstream p2p bandwidth

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VBL48 TIL that the inclusion of women in clinical research did not become law until 1993.
M46b TIL: In 2001 the DEA (drug enforcement agency) tried to ban glow sticks and pacifiers because they considered them “drug paraphernalia”
4k07w TIL about Batesian mimicry: a non-poisonous butterfly mimics the bright colors of poisonous ones. Predators avoiding the poisonous colors prey on dark-colored butterflies, favoring the survival of mimics. This increases the frequency of alleles for mimicry in the non-poisonous population.
v1Kr8 TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk in his office, and no one realized he was dead for 2 days.
vxy4 TIL To get Jack Nicholson in the right agitated mood in “The Shining”, movie director Stanley Kubrick fed Jack Nicholson only cheese sandwiches, which he hates.