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TIL that online privacy has been revoked by the government before the internet using the third party principle in a precedent from 1976

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rRxXe TIL: Internet Memes are now used in ways formerly used in leaflet propaganda. Targeted Internet memes "hack" people's attention and aid in sewing discord. Memes do this by utilizing classic psychological warfare tactics, such as those used in propaganda via analogue leaflets.
5VlPp TIL female prawns in prawn farms have one of their eyes cut off
WkyEA TIL That the T. Rex could easily be outrun by a human given their maximum speed is only around 12 mph
6EW4w TIL Ivan Kharchenko was named a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded an Order of Lenin and Gold Star for defusing more than 26,000 explosives during the battles of Stalingrad and Kiev. He continued his job until 1956, disarming 16,000 more munitions along the way, finally retiring in 1964.
jNgYX TIL about the Harvard computer science professor who built a distance learning empire.