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TIL in 2010 a class action lawsuit was brought against a Pennsylvania school district for using webcams in school-issued laptop computers to spy on students at home. After the suit was brought, the district revealed it had secretly snapped more than 66,000 images.

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nZW9 TIL of Vladimir Komarov who was a Russian cosmonaut.He was burned to death during re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere,crying in rage and cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship.
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