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TIL that GCHQ complained “…a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person”, which means staff processing images harvested from millions of webcams around the world keep being faced with genitals.

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8aAOa TIL that Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor in many of the Nuremberg Trials, also wished to prosecute American pilots who had bombed North Vietnam, believing they were also guilty of war crimes.
oBvjA TIL about Rat Kings. They are rats tangled by their tails and can consist of up to 30 rats.
N7bjb TIL Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, with Hitler being nominated in 1939, Mussolini in 1935 and Stalin in both 1945 & 1948.
wopW7 TIL how speedcubers (aka speed solvers) solve a Rubik's Cube in less than 10 seconds. The steps include solving the cross, the first two layers, and then orienting and permuting the last layer.
KO5J9 TIL that humans have a free floating bone in the neck that anchors the tongue in place and is believed to greatly contribute to humans being able to talk in the sophisticated manner that we do today.