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TIL that in New York, you don't actually need a valid driver’s license to own a car

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WTF. This should be illegal

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TIL of Dawson disease, a horrific complication of measles

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Also called Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), it affects like 1 in 5,000 people who contract measles (vaccinated), but jumps to 1 in 609 in the unvaccinated.

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TIL why Palpatine loves democracy

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TIL about the 2018 US Prison Strike, an attempt by prisoners to end US Prison Slavery

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Strike participants, their families, and advocacy groups reported that the leaders and organizers of the strike were punished with solitary confinement, loss of communication privileges, and prison transfers.[4][5][6]

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TIL about the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an anti-communist organization created by the CIA to sway Intellectual opinion against communism

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Video: https://lemmy.ml/post/39416509

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TIL about abogen. A tool to generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text with synchronized captions.

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TIL The ability to count is universal in the animal kingdom. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it.

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TIL about The Lobby, a 2017 Docuseries about AIPAC, whose second series was blocked

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Film also claims that Adam Milstein funds Canary Mission

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TIL that there was a man named William Patrick Hitler, a man who could have been a Nazi prince yet instead became an American veteran who helped defeat his uncle's empire.

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TIL that there was a man named William Patrick Hitler, a man who could have been a Nazi prince yet instead became an American veteran who helped defeat his uncle’s empire.

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