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TIL that the largest player vs player battle in gaming history involved over 7000 players and lasted over 20 hours

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eNX5 TIL In 2011, a team at the U.S. Department of Energy hacked into a one of the most commonly used electronic voting machines and concluded in their report: “anyone with $26 in parts and an eighth-grade science education would be able to manipulate the outcome of an election.”
QNale TIL Scientology targeted organizers of the 2008 Anonymous protests using Fair Game tactics of "Noisy Investigations" by PIs and killing pets of participants
6E5o8 TIL Cornelius Vanderbilt was the richest man in the world with net worth of US $215 billion (inflation-adjusted 2016). In comparison Jeff Bezos's net worth is US$137 billion (January 2019). By a 1973 family reunion, not one of the 120 Vanderbilt descendants present was a millionaire.
BrB1D TIL the legendary cyclist Marco Pantani, with a resting heart rate of 34 BPM, had to wake up in the night and cycle on a stationary bike to make sure his heart rate didn't drop too low and cause a heart attack.
neRv9 TIL the Polish Scouts fought the nazis in the Warsaw uprising, avoiding booby traps of poisoned candy and then went on to resist communism up to the fall of the soviet Union.