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TIL Whistle blower warned about NSA spying 9 months ago! (8:28)

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16GKd TIL Saban's Big Bad Beetleborgs, Mystic Knights, VR Troopers and Masked Rider were all popular kids' shows in the 1990's with high ratings, each were canceled due to Saban running out of footage from the original shows since each of these shows were based on the Japanese show, Metal Hero Tokusatsu
4N8o TIL that tribes in the Amazon are using technology like GPS and Google Earth to map their lands, monitor for illegal logging and mining, and maintain ties to their history and cultural traditions including knowledge of medicinal plants
9R66 TIL of Dado Banatao. He was born in rural Philippines. He walked barefooted everyday to elementary school and used bamboo sticks to learn math. He ended up in Stanford with a Masters in EECS, developed the first computer chips, and co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies, and S3 Graphics.
xVDe1 TIL That ancient Greeks hung a branch of bay over the door of a sick person to fend off evil and death. This led to the garlanding of newly qualified doctors with a bay wreath, known as the Bacca laureus in Latin, which gave us the word "baccalaureate" (University Degree).
VMd5Q TIL: ANZAC Day, April 25th, is the only legal day in Australia to play "Two-Up", a gambling and heavy drinking game which involves tossing a single coin in the air and betting on the result. It is illegal the rest of the year.