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TIL Microsoft created software that can automatically identify an image as child porn and they partner with police to track child exploitation.

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wGB8 TIL The bezel on a dive watch only rotates counterclockwise- The reason for this is so that if the bezel is bumped accidentally during a dive, it will only move one direction, subtracting time from the dive and prompting the diver to end his dive early.
bJwE TIL the film “Demolition Man” was released in two different editions. The U.S. Release which featured Taco Bell as the prominent Fast Food franchise of the future, and the International Release which featured Pizza Hut instead.
6E67J TIL Jules Verne's wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism. It was lost for over 100 years after his publisher deemed it too unbelievable to publish.
4aoo TIL that Warren Buffett got so mad that his son’s adopted daughter appeared on the documentary “The One Percent” that he disowned her and sent her a letter that said she had “never been considered a real family member” and had “not been legally or emotionally adopted” by him.
aww1y TIL George Lucas made sure R2D2 saves the day at least once in every Star Wars movie (Episodes 1-6)