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TIL the EU saves all its citizens’ texts, calls and emails for up to 2 years.

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GBM5 TIL:Ernest Hemingway survived,anthrax,pneumonia, dysentery,diabetes,high blood pressure,two successive plane crashes that resulted in ruptured kidney and liver, broken skull, second degree burns, and numerous other accidents, then won the Nobel Prize in Literature and eventually committed suicide.
ObN4 TIL Tear Gas (and pepper spray) are illegal to use in warfare. Used on our own citizens in riot control, it cannot be used on enemy combatants.
x6VWD TIL the classic cartoon image of a beehive looks so different from the real thing because it's based on an ancient manmade hive called a skep.
rRyW1 TIL A growing phenomenon nowadays is children in their 60s and 70s spending their retirement years caring for parents who are in their 90s and beyond. Longevity can take a financial toll on the family, as in the case of a daughter aged 75 caring for her 99 year old mother
1aJ6O TIL of Steve Comisar: a man who sold "solar powered clothes dryers" for $49.95 in national magazines. Unsuspecting customers would receive a length of clothes line.