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TIL google chrome records audio from your computer’s microphone whenever it’s open and sends it a private company to be analyzed… without asking for permission first

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awx7A TIL That the creator of Madame Tussauds, Marie Tussaud, was in jail during the French Revolution, awaiting execution by guillotine. She got out under 1 condition: She had to create wax sculptures of the recently guillotined heads of her former employers at Versailles, where she was an art teacher.
rRBxd TIL when "The Big Bang Theory" ended, it broke the record of "Cheers" for longest running sitcom in history.
0wxep TIL The iconic rest stop proposal scene on "The Office" was actually filmed on a set, in a parking lot behind a Best Buy.
7rYxb TIL in Indiana Jones and the last crusade, Most of the uniforms, worn by the Nazis in the Berlin book burning scene, are authentic World War II uniforms, and not costumes. A cache of old uniforms was found in Germany, and obtained by Costume Designer Anthony Powell to be used in the film.
mQvp TIL That the coder behind Microsoft’s Solitaire was an intern named Wes Cherry, he hasn’t been paid a cent for his creation.