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m9lR TIL in 1990, Americans were told Iraqi forces in Kuwait removed hundreds of babies from incubators and were thrown in the street or killed. The story was false and part of a PR firm’s contract to build up US public support for the invasion of Iraq. It was overwhelmingly successful.
Q7bd TIL the first spam email and the first DoS attack occurred on the same day. A law firm sent a spam message over the early web, and annoyed recipients flooded them with angry responses, crashing their computer.
6EgDm TIL Bhutan is the world's only carbon negative country. The constitution demands at least 60% of the country covered in forest, making it a sink of over four million tonnes of CO2 per year.
4X5rb TIL that Osama Bin Laden is one of 50 kids from his father, a multi millionaire construction magnate.
Q1jp TIL in 1952 after a good samaritan helped capture notorious bank robber Willie Sutton, NYC Mob Boss Albert Anastasia ordered the man dead after watching an interview with him on TV saying “I can’t stand squealers! Hit that guy!”. The man was killed a few days later. Sutton had no Mob connections