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TIL A Superman landmine awareness campaign backfired when children ran into a minefield hoping to get rescued by Superman

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xM70 TIL Scientists hack a computer using just the sound of the CPU. Researchers extract 4096-bit RSA decryption keys from laptop computers in under an hour using a mobile phone placed next to the computer.
gGBD TIL Ben Schulz (more infamously known as Leeroy Jenkins) had a written role in the script for the Warcraft movie. Pvt Jenkins was to break rank “with a zealous battlecry” and be immediately cut down by orcs. The part was ultimately cut from the movie.
xVVlo TIL that the old Democratic-Republican party used to act like Democrats until they overwhelmed the Federalist party and split into the Democratic and Republican party.
mxmPE TIL that the King Crab is not a crab at all but evolved to resemble one via carcinisation.
LQ7jV TIL Nokia reached their milestone of selling one billion phone back in 2005. The one billionth phone was a Nokia 1100 purchased in Nigeria.