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TIL that thousands of high school students watch 12 minutes of Channel One every day of class: A multimillion-dollar, corporate-owned program that pipes advertisements into the classroom. In return, participating schools receive technological grants.

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wPY1 TIL an MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort,” possibly eliminating the need for central heating and cooling.
JYwpv TIL Many PCs in the 80's and 90's had a "Turbo" button which actually made it run slower
OoVD1 TIL the act of attributing causal relationship between unrelated actions and events is called "Magical thinking", for example "If I don't brush my teeth today my dog will die", and is considered a form of OCD.
MWx0 TIL of laughing gas parties, where the British upper class would get high off of nitrous oxide
7r4DL TIL about Blackstone's ratio, the idea that, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Blackstone's principle influenced the nineteenth-century development of "beyond a reasonable doubt" as the burden of proof in criminal law.