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TIL Take This Lollipop is an interactive film which accesses viewer’s Facebook profile and locates the viewer’s home from data in profile. It depicts the dangers in posting too much personal info on the Internet. Information gathered is then deleted which makes the film different for each viewer.

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jN5Dp TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.
X0jM8 TIL that Claude La Colombi, the priest who helped spread the Sacred Heart of Jesus devotion, was awaiting return to France from England when he was implicated in the false Popish plot and was eventually punished with exile to France.
47yX TIL after The Verve published Bitter Sweet Symphony, the band was sued twice by former Rolling Stones managers despite having signed a license. The Rolling Stones now receive 100% of the royalties, and Mick Jagger is officially listed as composer of a song written completely by Richard Ashcroft.
wKo8 TIL that when director Harold Ramis was filming Groundhog Day he filmed every outdoor scene in every possible weather condition so that way when the film was being edited he could make sure the weather never changed during the single day Murray relives over and over again
GYnPJ TIL that there is a Peruvian Christmas Tradition where people fight each other to settle grievances on Christmas Day.