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TIL Facebook applied for a patent for a technology built to spy on users' reactions of content through their webcams/smartphone cameras and microphones without their knowledge

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6raQ TIL that rapper T.I. has talked two men out of jumping off a building on two unrelated occasions
xVL5k TIL Project RENEW, co-founded in 2001 by a US Army vet in an effort to help clear unexploded bombs in Vietnam, now spends about $24 million a year clearing unexploded ordnance, teaching children about the risks, and assisting victims. The project cleared 17,000 bombs in 2017.
R7lKw TIL that elephants are a keystone species. They carve pathways through impenetrable under brush shaping entire ecosystems as they create pools in dried river beds and spread seeds as they travel.
yQvXV TIL Japan proposed an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles that outlawed all racial discrimination. Despite receiving a majority vote for it to be added to the treaty Woodrow Wilson personally vetoed the measure and as a comprise let Japan claim a number of islands in the Pacific.
pYaRZ TIL in 1962. An epidemic of laughter broke out in Tanganyika. The outbreak began in a girls' school and then spread to other communities, where uncontrollable laughter affected an estimated 1,000 people. It lasted several months and 14 schools in the district were closed for quarantine.