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TIL that in 2011 for 4 hours you could log into any Dropbox account without a password resulting in everyone being able to access any account.

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MegAK TIL Rod Steward used to take cocaine anally, rather than risk destroying his nasal passages.
x6vL1 TIL during the Battle of Mars-la-Tour in the Franco-Prussian War, Von Bredow led 800 cavalry against a French force 4 times in size. He declared "it will cost what it will." The charge succeeded, but only 420 men returned out of 800. It was the last major European cavalry charge in history.
9GdM TIL that 40% of the genetic information found in our GI Tract doesn’t fit anything ever classified before. Biologists call it “Biological Dark Matter”.
VNo4 TIL The Gell-Mann Effect is when we believe everything the media tells us except for anything for which we have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong.
x4Nb TIL Alexander Bell never called his wife or his mother after inventing the telephone because they were both deaf