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TIL that US telecom companies are legally required to provide a backdoor to law enforcement for wiretapping

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5vLB TIL Strip clubs often make change with $2 bills to increase their strippers earnings
VXm TIL U.S. bridges and roads are being built by Chinese firms not American because it’s “faster and cheaper”.
yQgjv TIL Ex Bassist of the all-female rock group 'The Runaways' won 87k on Jeopardy and is now an Attorney
ONwL TIL in 1914, British WW1 soldier Thomas Hughes throw a bottle with a letter to his wife into the English Channel. He was killed 2 days later. In 1999, a Fisherman found the bottle in the River Thames. Hughes wife had died in 1979 but the letter was delivered to the soldier’s 86 year old daughter
JoWB TIL that after Europeans settled in Australia in 1788, they tried to brew many popular English-style ales, but environmental factors and its remote location proved too difficult. Eventually, brewers created a lighter lager and the only native beer style to the country, the Australian Sparkling Ale.