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TIL hackers can steal data from your computer even if it’s not connected to the internet by causing the hard disk drive activity indicator LED to blink rapidly.

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JNQj TIL that MythBusters once fired a cannonball at a bomb disposal range…and missed. Instead, it flew over 700 yards and through a bedroom in which a family was sleeping, eventually coming to a stop in a minivan.
16By8 TIL that in the 2000s there was a case of conjoined triplets, diagnosed at 22 weeks. The mother terminated the pregnancy.
DQDPj TIL that you remember more dreams when you sleep badly. Research suggests that if you sleep badly and wake up multiple times throughout the night you will be more likely to recall the content of any dreams you had. You are also more likely to remember a dream when woken from one.
bx8N TIL that the last heir to the former Ottoman Empire, Bayezid Osman, is a 92-year old former librarian living in New York City, who served in the U.S. Army and never had any children
10y7 TIL in 1910, when asked how much vacation time a worker should take annually, President Taft recommended 3 months