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TIL that about Oberto Airaudi, who secretly dug a cave beneath his unassuming house, extracting 300,000 ft^3 of rock to house 7 intricate temples!

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dnxd TIL Following the pepper-spraying incident involving peaceful protesters and an overzealous Campus Cop, UC Davis spent at least $175K in an effort to ‘scrub’ the internet of negative posts about the incident, part of their “strategic communications” budget that reached $5.47M in 2015.
XJR8 TIL the FBI has a “point-and-click” system for tapping phones called DCSNet. It has the ability to intercept wire-line phones, cellular phones, SMS and push-to-talk systems and it’s details were revealed after the a lawsuit was filed by the EFF.
l7ZeK TIL in 2020 a woman took an online DNA test which showed a 22% match with a man who she'd eventually discover to be her still alive uncle, who was kidnapped in 1951 at the age of six & had been missing for 70 years. After he was abducted in Oakland, he was flown to the east coast & raised there.
BAYx TIL That bootleg maple syrup is A. a real thing and B. serious business in Quebec
YWjB TIL that with Saudi Arabia now allowing women to vote, Vatican City is the only remaining country where women cannot vote.