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TIL that in 1973 science historian James Burke predicted the widespread use of computers for business decisions, the creation of metadata banks of personal information, and changes in human behaviour, such as greater willingness to reveal personal information to strangers

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8a7KP TIL 76 years ago yesterday, Dutch partisan Willem Arondeus was executed for bombing a public records office in Amsterdam, in an effort to prevent Nazi identification of local Jews. His last words were "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!"
QoL9 TIL that navel lint is caused by hairs around the stomach operating as a “one-way ratchet mechanism” that removes fibers from inside your clothes and deposits them into your navel
pEZQ TIL that if you keep smelling something that is not really there, you may be experiencing the earliest symptoms of schizophrenia
XZ5Q TIL that during the Cold War the Soviet Union had many “closed cities” restricted for foreigners and tightly controlled for citizens and that even today Russia still keeps a great number of its closed cities in the former Soviet republics.
Wpp4 TIL Carrie Fisher wore no underwear in Star Wars because George Lucas convinced her “there is no underwear in outerspace”