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TIL: That the US Airforce has looked into research on: "How to use social media to control people like drones"

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LQXN0 TIL Gloria Williams, who pleaded guilty to posing as a hospital employee and abducting Kamiyah Mobley from her mother's arms in the maternity ward, was sentenced to 18 years, which was the length of time Mobley was separated from her birth family.
wAoY TIL that a DNA test where you poop in a bucket has been shown to accurately find colorectal cancer 92% of the time. This was developed as a potential alternative to screening colonoscopies.
VBvB0 TIL that Frederick Taylor is the father The Open Plan Office Layout. Inspired by factory floor designs, this layout involved crowding workers together in a large, open space, with managers often observing from private offices to improve efficiency.
KBnQ TIL EINSTEIN once declared that his second greatest idea after the theory of relativity was to add an egg while cooking soup in order to produce a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash.
vEaD TIL that even through African-americans are only 13.6% of the population on USA, they account for 39.4% of the prisons, 52.5% of homicides and 35% of youth crimes.