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TIL about dark pattern design used by social platforms to deliberately mislead users into continual use and giving up more data.

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yQwKl TIL Upon the Debut of Apple Maps, in Sept 2012, Users reported numerous errors such as redirecting UK user's searches of London to its smaller namesake London, Ontario , mislabelling a small Irish park as an airport & completely wiping out certain cities
0wmWN TIL I learned that Horseshoe crabs are not crustaceans at all, but actually Arachnids.
R7VNa TIL of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery by travelling openly from Macon, Georgia to Boston. Ellen, who was light skinned, dressed as a man with a sling to hide the fact that she could not write and passed as William's slave owner. Eventually, they fled to Liverpool, England.
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RPp9 TIL Trey Parker & Matt Stone were inspired to make ‘The Book of Mormon’ after seeing the Broadway musical 'Avenue Q’. Robert Lopez, creator of 'Avenue Q’, was inspired to make it after seeing Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s movie 'South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut’