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TIL Apartheid South Africa had a secret weapons program to develop germs that would only kill blacks or lower their birthrate.

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XE06D You hear the phrase all the time when you’re working with computers, especially on customer service calls: “Please reboot your computer.” Why do we use the word reboot to mean “turn it off and on again”? It all goes back to tech history — and to one of the most revolutionary aspects of these computing machines.
wKAM TIL Amazon warehouse workers walk between 7 and 15 miles each day as part of their daily shift
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ZpedD TIL that in 2012, a group of British students edited the Wikpedia article about electric toasters and inserted the false claim that a man named Alan MacMasters invented the toaster in 1893. The fake article was cited by newspapers and other organizations until the hoax was exposed in July 2022.