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TIL That you hallucinate when you are about to fall asleep

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g6nb TIL the U.S. government has an FBI-led group called the Domestic Surveillance Alliance Council (DSAC), which shares vast streams of personal data with over 200 of the largest corporations in the world, including Citibank, Coca-Cola, and Federal Express.
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