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TIL The UK’s internet porn filter architect was arrested on child porn offences.

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8aRxX TIL about James Fallon, a neuroscientist who studied the brain scans of psychopaths, only to discover that he was one himself
YpgaG TIL of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, presented annually to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. The award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".
0wMVR TIL that in 2017 Saudi Prince Bought Plane Tickets for His 80 Falcons
PYpWE TIL Record Companies sued Limewire creators for 72 Trillion Dollars in damages. That was more than global GDP in 2011.
69All TIL, Aleksandr Komin kept 6 people as prisoners in a 30-feet deep bunker under his garage forcing them to work 16 hours a day. When two women tried to escape, they were caught and Aleksandr tattooed "РАБ"(Russian for "slave") on their faces.