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TIL Luddites were protesting working conditions and low pay, not technology

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JY4al TIL about the unsolved killing of Ken McElroy of Skidmore, Missouri. He was indicted 21 times and escaped conviction each time, except the last. He was later killed in broad daylight by at least two different firearms. Although this was witnessed by a few dozen people, no one has been convicted.
M7ya8 TIL of the Streisand effect, which is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing awareness of that information.
4MgN TIL Monica Lewinsky, as of 2014, had still not held a full-time job since leaving the Pentagon in 1997.
dDMgZ TIL that humanity has a 95% probability of going extinct by the year 10,000 AD according to Brandon Carter's formulationof the controversial Doomsday argument, which argues that half of the humans who will ever have lived have probably already been born.
oRP5o TIL: We know more about the surface of Mars that the deepest part of our oceans