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TIL: 10 Hasidic Schools that ban internet access, received over $9 million earmarked for computers and technology. Audits revealed classrooms outfitted with ethernet jacks, but no computers were found.

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Y4RA TIL Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain due to a failure to register its copyright
dD45K TIL that the food brand Hamburger Helper released an EP titled 'Watch the Stove' as an April Fools joke in 2016.
OoMv4 TIL that Poo-phoria occurs when your bowel movement stimulates the vagus nerve, which descends from the brain stem to the colon. It takes a particularly "large mass of stool" to trigger poo-phoria and its vagal-nerve-induced feelings of exhilaration, intense relaxation, and goose bumps.
OGgl4 TIL Eating boogers can be good for your teeth.
R74n7 TIL about Viola Desmond, a Nova Scotian woman who in 1946 was charged with tax evasion of one cent for refusing to leave a whites-only section of a theatre. She is featured on the new $10 Canadian bill.