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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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N7p1J TIL: Television's Most Infamous Hack Is Still a Mystery 30 Years Later
eppwL TIL that the average human excretes 6,500 gallons of mucus in a lifetime.
aRWo TIL that an Ohio judge sentenced a woman to spend 8 hours in the “smelliest, most god-awful place they can find” at a garbage dump, for neglecting her dog. “If you puke, you puke”
4Xmng TIL an inventory of the Imperial Palace of Rome, dated to the year 214 AD, lists 17 tons of opium
a8pWA TIL A man named Charles Osborne had hiccups non-stop for approximately 68 years, from 1922 to 1990. In 1922, he was weighing a hog for slaughter. He fell and busted a blood vessel in his brain resulting in him damaging a small part of the brain that inhibits the hiccup response.