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TIL Facebook’s mobile app discretely eavesdrops on your conversations using your phone’s mic to “serve you a better experience”

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p8WaO TIL Arsenic used to be so undetectable and popular a poison that it was nicknamed the "inheritance powder"
mn9o TIL that the United Kingdom and Portugal have the oldest alliance and peace treaty in the world that is still in force — with the earliest treaty dating back to the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373.
yVZBJ Today I learned that Ben Affleck's first television role was as C.T. Granville on the educational television program The Voyage of the Mimi which ran on PBS in 1984
jkDE TIL A North Carolina man who saw an SUV flip and roll on a highway, with no prior medical training, was able to provide medical aid to the victims with skills he learned from the video game America’s Army.
9YAaD TIL about Ewa Wiśnierska, a german paraglider that got surprised by a thunderstorm and got sucked up by a cumulonimbus cloud to an altitude of 10.000m (33.000ft). She survived temperatures of -50*C and extreme oxygen deprivation at a height higher than the Mt. Everest.