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What action movie trope is worse than the intelligence agency looking at 4 pixels and saying “enhance” until it’s 1080p two frames later?

by QuestionGuy May 18, 2023, 7:53 am

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TIL of a reporter who commissioned a paper from an academic ghostwriting agency to expose the “black market” for college assignments. Instead, the paper got an A-.

by whatilearned May 15, 2023, 9:25 pm

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128 years ago, Brazil and Japan signed a treaty that allowed 200,000 migrants from the Asian country to settle down Source: Senate Agency

by HistoryBuff May 13, 2023, 1:24 am

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TIL Sweden has a law that requires a child’s name to be approved by a government agency prior to birth. Protest names against this law include Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced “Albin”), Metallica and Allah.

by whatilearned April 11, 2023, 7:37 pm

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TIL Martin Winterkorn The former Volkswagen CE0 is an international fugitive. He was indicted by the United States, And Germany and is wanted by the Environmental Protection Agency for Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Conspiracy to violate the Clea Air Act.

by whatilearned April 4, 2023, 6:39 pm

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TIL that the only time a federal agency has raided another is when the FBI and EPA raided the Department of Energy while investigating environmental crimes related to nuclear weapons production

by whatilearned April 3, 2023, 3:26 pm

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TIL the WannaCry ransomware attack was propagated using EternalBlue, an exploit developed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) which was stolen and leaked a month prior

by whatilearned April 2, 2023, 2:37 pm

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TIL the Pinkerton Detective Agency never went out of business and is still in operation today, now, as a division of Securitas.

by whatilearned February 24, 2023, 4:47 am

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TIL a Scottish widower seeking female companionship set 2,000 bottled messages adrift, but ceased the practice in response to public complaints and an investigation by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

by whatilearned February 4, 2023, 12:43 pm

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What will the gas stove enforcement agency be filled with?

by cringeyjokesman January 13, 2023, 8:39 pm

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TIL about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – a US government agency maintaining a reference catalogue of almost any item known; from peanut butter to New Jersey waste water samples. And everything is for sale.

by whatilearned November 27, 2022, 2:00 am

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TIL the Ringling Bros circus had a secret spy agency that utilized dirty tactics to sabotage animal rights groups and others. In one instance, they created a fake literary agency to trick a biographer into publishing her critical book on the founders family so they could file a copyright claim.

by whatilearned November 15, 2022, 8:03 pm

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