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TIL motion sensor data (accessible without user permission in iOS and Android) can reveal your health condition, body features, age, sex, emotional state, biometric identity, driving style, smoking behaviour, intoxication, text typed on the touchscreen, and location — even when GPS is disabled.

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xVJA1 TIL Instead of “pass/fail” Japanese students used to receive college entrance exam results via telegram with a message, “cherry blossoms are blooming” (pass), or “cherry blossoms are falling” (fail).
VBLmk TIL there’s a species of jellyfish that can reverse their age once reaching adulthood
X0ppP TIL the Mechanical Turk was a chess playing machine from 1770 that seemed to be able to compete against a human chess player like artificial intelligence. Except that it simply hid another human player within itself.
4X6wN TIL Goodyear knew about defective RV tire that had caused deaths and continues to cover up the fact 20 years later using protective court orders
69BPJ TIL of high school student Michael Eugene Thomas, who in 1989 was choked to death by another kid, for his Air Jordan sneakers.