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TIL a 24-year-old IT analyst managed to and was arrested for hacking into a public billboard and streaming a Japanese porn film which shocked motorists in Jakarta, Indonesia where access to online pornographic material is blocked

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VaDZ TIL of colossal cannibal great white shark, capable of hunting and eating 10 ft Great White Sharks.
9gGB TIL a study conducted by Johns Hopkins found fifty US hospitals that gouge uninsured patients about 1000% actual costs, with the worst offender being North Okaloosa Medical Center who charge the uninsured 12.6 times the actual cost of patient care
9YwGG TIL the long extinct Dire Wolf (Canis Dirus, "fearsome dog") is the largest species of the genus Canis known to have existed.
ZG7R TIL that EVE Online’s economy is so rich, that CCP (the developers) had to employ five full-time economists to keep things in balance and to prevent it from being unstable.
vPXD7 TIL that there are approximately 39,000 airplanes in the world right now. There have been approximately 150,000 airplanes throughout human history.