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Y4Xd TIL that in order to prevent Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht from deleting or encrypting his hard drive during his arrest at a public library, agents pretended to be quarreling lovers to distract him, at which point a USB drive was inserted that cloned his hard drive
GAelj Today I learned that one of the reasons Alien has such a diverse cast was because they wrote all their characters with no backstory before casting “The crew is unisex, and all parts are interchangeable for men or women.” - Ronald Shusset
KONV9 TIL: the city of Venice was founded as Italians hid in the marshes and lagoons to hide from the invasion of Attila the Hun
Mea6B TIL About Unsinkable Sam - The Cat Who Survived Three Sinking Ships During His Naval Service In WW2
LkZ4r TIL that the first character on screen in Super Mario 64 is Lakitu, Mario's camera operator. Because the 1996 game was the first in the series to have 3D gameplay, the developers needed to teach players that they were controlling both Mario AND the camera.