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TIL in 2023 a man called the cage supervisor at the Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas posing as the hotel's co-owner & convinced them to delivery 4 installments of cash totaling $1.17m to multiple off-site locations by telling them the fire department needed money. He received a suspended sentence.

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OoZE4 TIL Three Honolulu firefighters were killed, and six wounded, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, making them the only fire department on American soil to be attacked by a foreign power.
LYoZ TIL The family of the Columbine shooters had to pay $2.5 million in restitution for the victims
OGKj4 TIL Uranus has a newly discovered moon, just 6 miles (10 km) across, bringing its total to 29. It was detected in 2025 using the James Webb Space Telescope
9wWXX TIL 13-year-old BlueScuti became the first human to reach the "kill screen" for the NES version of Tetris after a 40-minute 1,511 line performance. And until just a few years ago, the Tetris community at large had assumed that it was functionally impossible for someone to get much past 290 lines.
ywPX TIL that “sentience” means “the ability to feel” and does not mean “self aware”. “Sapience” is the ability to have complex thought. Therefore, it is probably true that all animals with a brain are sentient.