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TIL there's a dog obesity crisis in the United Kingdom

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XkQP TIL In 2010 Feminist Claire Perry unsuccessfully tried to pressure ISPs into automatically blocking pornography, forcing users to “opt-in”. She is the current ‘Porn Advisor’ to David Cameron
nYWP TIL a man’s AI watched and recreated blade runner. The recreation was taken down. Essentially: Warner DMCA’d an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn’t distinguish between the simulation and the real thing.
0OEM TIL Blond(e) is one of the few words left in English that is gendered. Blond is used to describe males, while Blonde is used to describe females.
VpXQ TIL in 1960, Congress created a medal equal to the Medal of Honor specifically to confer it upon four chaplains for actions in WWII.
GAVwQ TIL in the early 1900s, lead arsenate was the most widely used pesticide in the U.S. The USDA recommended it broadly and millions of acres were sprayed with it across the country to protect crops.