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TIL The Soviets would not only kill political enemies, but would also alter photos containing them, as if to erase them from history.

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KGaG TIL mathematician Zachary Harris hacked into Google’s email system and sent a e-mail phishing attack to Larry Page from Sergey Brin’s e-mail account. All because he noticed a flaw in an e-mail sent from Google offering him a job and thought it was a test. It wasn’t.
MV6K TIL in 2009, imgur used 20TB bandwidth per month. In 2012 that number grew to 4.39 PB (4495 TB) per month.
R757a TIL stuffing made in a pan outside of cooked poultry is called 'dressing' and if made inside the fowl, it's called 'stuffing.'
m1r1R TIL that when Napoleon surrendered after Waterloo he assumed he would be allowed to see out his exile comfortably as a foreign monarch in Britain, writing to the Prince Regent to ask "for a country house ‘about ten or twelve leagues from London – a big enough house to accommodate all my suite’."
9w4AB TIL: The weird robot in Rocky IV is named Sico in real life and was a therapy tool for Sylvester Stallone‘s autistic son. Stallone included Sico in the movie to stay close to his son. After the movie, Sico went on tour with James Brown.