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Apple is slowing down your old iPhone.

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N7JxJ TIL learned that in 1985 a guy programmed his computer to call Jerry Falwell Sr's toll free prayer line every 30 seconds for 8 months. It clogged up the lines and cost them over $750k in reverse charges.
e09k6 TIL "Type A Personality" was invented by researchers who were paid by the tobacco industry to hide the link between smoking and health risks.
1axLV TIL that Marvel's X-Men, and mutants in the Marvelverse in general, have been depicted as metaphors of RL social issues (esp. LGBT and the Legacy Virus = HIV arc).
kgKm TIL that the only method used to send escape tools to WWII POWs that was never discovered by the Germans was hiding silk maps, metal tools, and compasses in Monopoly game boards - allowing at least 744 airmen to escape POW camps.
KGaG TIL mathematician Zachary Harris hacked into Google’s email system and sent a e-mail phishing attack to Larry Page from Sergey Brin’s e-mail account. All because he noticed a flaw in an e-mail sent from Google offering him a job and thought it was a test. It wasn’t.