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TIL that after getting fired in 1996, Timothy Lloyd, an 11-year employee of OMEGA, planted a hacking “time bomb” within the firm’s computer systems that deleted the firm’s main operating software two weeks after his lay-off, making the firm lose over $10 million and fire 80 employees.

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v1KXr TIL 1/3 of all internet traffic from the U.S. to Asia passes through a single skyscraper in Downtown Los Angeles, where 260 ISPs lease space for interconnected networks.
EGw TIL the world’s largest primates stood 10 feet tall and may have coexisted with humans before going extinct
m9dp TIL that King George V of England had a dragon tattoo on his arm
yVodw TIL the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was attacked by rabbits and forced to retreat. In 1807, after signing a treaty, he proposed a rabbit hunt with his men for which, his chief of staff collected over 3000 bunnies. When the hunt began, the rabbits charged towards him and his men in a vicious attack.
WkgpX TIL Argentine ants in Europe have taken over a 3,700-mile stretch of coast along the Mediterranean Sea. This single colony is the largest ever discovered and it’s wider than Rhode Island and Delaware combined.