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TIL Comcast wants to control what you do online and make you pay to use your favorite sites.

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a8w19 TIL in 2015 the US Forces wanted to update the 'loose lips, sink ships' warning from WW2, Warning against sharing information with others outside the forces. They had to tailor it for the Social Media generation, and came up with: 'loose tweets destroy fleets'.
16QO7 TIL that the same man, William A. Mitchell, invented Tang, Cool Whip, and Pop Rocks.
Oon0Y TIL in a study of 640 dream journals conducted by Harvard, psychologists determined the dreams of prisoners in WWII POW camps were less aggressive than the standard male population. Rather than visions of extreme violence, the majority of soldiers dreamed of escape, family, loneliness, and home.
16Ml7 TIL of David Icke, an English foorballer who upon meeting a psychic, proclaimed himself "Son of the Godhead", and began to write an extensive series of conspiracies around interdimensional energy beings, and half human reptilians of the global elite, called "Archons"
Y5VW TIL Quebec has a government backed maple syrup cartel that rules with an iron fist by crushing dissenters while investigating, charging and pursuing independent maple syrup producers who question the Cartel’s control of 70% of the global supply.