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TIL that some employers use surveillance tools originally developed for Pentagon and CIA to track staff behavior, emotions, fatigue, and productivity.

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eL75 TIL in 2013 a NJ city councilwoman was tricked into believing the Blue Waffle Disease was real and a threat to her city, so she asked the city council what they were going to do about it.
6YEY TIL an Indonesian politician makes a law to make porn illegal then gets caught watching porn in parliament.
4XNV6 TIL The band Phoenix once played a secret concert at a high school in Austin. To attend, the students needed to have perfect attendance.
E18RP TIL about the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, a small group that broke into an FBI field office and stole documents that revealed the FBI’s spying on and infiltration of left-wing organizations across the US.
d9JK TIL that only one member of Congress voted against the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists after 9/11, stating that they should be “careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target.”