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TIL that US authorities have had the right to access emails that have been stored on a server for up to 180 days without a warrant, since 1986.

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5awr TIL that one of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s first acting roles was playing an alien gladiator champion in an episode of ‘Star Trek: Voyager’
QJWQE TIL L Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, had a son Quintin who was tasked to take over from the Church of Scientology. When Quintin came out as gay, he died of an ‘apparent suicide’ in 1976.
DpVp TIL that Goldeneye was Ian Fleming’s Jamaican villa where he wrote all 14 Bond novels and you can rent it for $6000/night.
R7Od9 TIL that the earliest recordable instance of a chokeslam technique was a move made by President Abraham Lincoln.
N7NEb TIL about the Diolkos, an ancient "railway" that enabled ships to travel overland across the Isthmus of Corinth