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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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GK6G TIL Kanye West sampled a song by Aphex Twin, tried to avoid paying for it and claim he had written it, and when Aphex offered to redo the sample for him, the response was, “It’s not yours, it’s ours, and we’re not even asking you anymore.”
N7OvP TIL Coca Cola had to warn people not to drink the foul smelling liquid in their “MagiCan” promotion
yV5e TIL that Bikini Bottom from Spongebob is actually at the bottom of the lagoon at Bikini Atoll, the famous U.S. atomic bomb testing site.
PY9PL TIL during the premiere of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ 241 people walked out of the theater demanding to know what the film was about. Creator Arthur C. Clarke once said, “If you understand ‘2001’ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.”
wLVGW TIL Of Timothy Evans, a Welshman tried, convicted, and hung for the murder of his daughter. Throughout the trial, he blamed his downstairs neighbour for the murder. Three years later, his downstairs neighbour confessed.