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TIL the DVD rental service redbox is owned by the company that makes those 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' books

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eEYJ TIL that between 2007 and 2010, when driving around, Google’s Street View cars hijacked peoples personal wireless signals, collecting emails, text messages, internet browsing histories and other personal information, in the US, UK, France and the Netherlands.
RXe4 TIL of Susan Warren, a woman from Cleveland, was arrested because she broke into random houses, cleaned them and left a bill for her services with her contact info for payment.
0QGv TIL Mall of America is owned by Canadians
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vBJK TIL that in 1998, Texan judge Jack Hampton sentenced a man for 30 years for killing two gay men instead of life requested by the prosecuter. He justified it by stating “I put prostitutes and gays at about the same level … and I’d be hard put to give somebody life for killing a prostitute.”