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TIL A group of students in Iran spent years reconstructing thousands of shredded CIA secret documents, and subsequently published them

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9wAPD TIL that surveillance and assessment mechanisms are often unobtrusively woven into video games, allowing companies to build detailed profiles of the people playing the game. Researchers say the level of privacy intrusion is comparable to dating apps and social media platforms.
R65j TIL that “begs the question” doesn’t mean ‘asks the question’, and instead is a logical fallacy that means 'the conclusion lacks support’.
gL5D TIL that most of the meat in burger adverts is raw and that they paint it with food coloring and go through tonnes of other ingredients and techniques, just to get that perfect looking burger
9YlP6 TIL Monty Python and the Life of Brian would have never been made without £2 million in financing from George Harrison
b9orQ TIL Surplus jet engines were used to de-ice railroads in Russia