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TIL the US ICBM arsenal relies on 8-inch floppy disks

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rNE7w TIL about the kidnapping of Katie Beers, who was 9 when she was kidnapped by family friend John Esposito and kept prisoner in a bunker underneath his garden from 1992-93. He abused her and planned to keep her there for the rest of her life, but finally confessed after 17 days and she was rescued.
yVdjw TIL about 15% of all traffic on the internet is cat related
VBRrm TIL Billionaire Peter Thiel paid $10 million to finance lawsuits against the media company Gawker, including the 2016 Hulk Hogan case that brought down the media company, as retaliation for an article outing him as gay in 2007.
kOgW7 TIL the island of Montserrat is known as "The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean." Its inhabitants, most of whom descend from Irish indentured servants and enslaved Africans, speak a dialect of English that has features of both Irish and Afro-Caribbean dialects.
XE04Q TIL that modern fire departments/brigades have their origins from when property-insurance companies had their own fire departments.