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TIL sleeptexting is becoming more common, especially for young people.

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vDKK TIL “This Is The End” was the last ever DVD to be rented from Blockbuster in 2013
a8QBy TIL pro football player Ty’Ran Dixon was jailed for 67 days, including 21 days in solitary confinement, after being mistaken for murder suspect Tyren Dickson, despite no resemblance, no evidence, and an alibi placing him 80+ miles away at a college football game during the crime.
ovoL TIL A smart phone’s nanotech based accelerometer can tell when it is being dropped and allow the phone to shut down parts of its hardware to protect it. That is why you see a lot of cracked glass on perfectly usable iPhones.
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v1rVB TIL about Hanoi Hannah, a Vietnamese radio personality who read the names of GIs that were KIA directly from the Stars and Stripes newspaper, and played popular anti-war songs to incite homesickness, attempting to persuade US GIs to go home during the Vietnam War.