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TIL of the Chinese social credit system, which will be used to exclude citizens from flights, schools, loans etc. Based on their "score" received from monitoring of everyday activity

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Z8XEa TIL that Measles can cause immune amnesia. When infected with Measles the virus replaces your memory cells with new ones and essentially resets your immune system. You are then not only infected with Measles but are susceptible to infections that you previously had built immunity to.
RaO8 TIL Isaac Asimov described Carl Sagan as “one of only two people he ever met whose intellect surpassed his own.”
R7kw8 TIL that Washington DC police ran a fake hip-hop studio to attract criminals and record proof of their illicit deals. "Manic Enterprises" made 70 arrests, snagged $7.2 million in cocaine, and confiscated 161 illegal weapons. Cops shut it down after they heard a gang planned on robbing the studio.
eQZ6 TIL 70,000 Americans REALLY DID move to Canada because they didn’t like the way American politics were heading–15% of Loyalists moved to Canada and other parts of the British empire to protest American victory in the Revolutionary war
Lk9KQ TIL that Demi Moore was the subject of credit card theft after a man took her card on a shopping spree, spending as much as $169,000 while she had no idea any of this was happening for several weeks.