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TIL that T-Mobile collects the web pages you visit on your T-Mobile phone, even if you are using WiFi and not their network.

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1l8V TIL mail order shops sold nose hair trimmers cheaply to build lists of people too embarrassed to buy them in person, and therefore very likely to buy more embarrassing things via the mail.
4X0Jb TIL Kimbo Slice passed away in 2016 at the age of 42. Apart from his famous street fights, he also fought in the UFC and Bellator MMA
DLNj TIL celine dion’s my heart will go on was recorded in one take as a demo to convinced james cameron to feature it in his movie the titanic. He approved. The song was never re-recorded. So technically the award winning song was a demo tape.
NRMN TIL a man almost went to jail for child porn on his work issued laptop. He only got off after they found that the PC visited as many as 40 child porn sites a minute even while he was nowhere near it.
LQdnV TIL some churches have a hagioscope (or squint), a hole in a wall which allowed segregated worshippers to view the altar, one London church had to admonish nuns who got into the habit of kissing ‘secular persons’ via the squint