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TIL in 2005, Sony used music CDs to illegally install a rootkit virus on 22 million computers; and when caught, they released an uninstaller that failed to remove the rootkit, installed further programs and illegally collected user information

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OgBX TIL a Dutch woman called her ex-boyfriend 65,000 times in one year.
74xr TIL that the average American thinks that 26% of the federal budget goes to foreign aid, while it in reality is less than 1%, or 0.17% of GNI (compared to 1.4% of Sweden’s GNI)
KbK4 TIL a guy in London dressed up as a superhero and went around removing boots from people’s cars. He called himself Angle-Grinder Man.
6RRw TIL Coconuts and coconut cultivation are so old, we don’t know where on Earth they originated
bQOa TIL in 1853 a candidate for governor in California accidentally campaigned in Oregon so they named the town after him