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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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EgZRd TIL Rick James and Neil Young were in a band together Called the Mynah Birds.
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J1dNQ TIL Hamburgers cooked in Louis Lunch restaurant in New Haven are made on the original cast iron vertical gas broilers from 1898
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