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TIL Tobey Maguire's father was convicted of robbing a bank

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D1BaD TIL Ireland's air force only has 8 turboprop engine combat planes armed with rockets and machine guns.
D9mj TIL of Kevin Mitnick, a hacker believed to be so dangerous that he was placed in solitary confinement for fear of being able to “start a thermonuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”
j6MwQ TIL about the Javan Rhinoceros. A critically endangered species of rhino. Currently there are about 76 Javan rhinos surviving in just one country, Indonesia.
Gd61 TIL: In Cuba, a special permit is required to use the Internet and all e-mails are intricately monitored. Cuba has been listed as an “Internet Enemy” by Reporters Without Borders since the list was created in 2006.
5GbR TIL in 2004, a woman engaged to a video game programmer anonymously vented her frustrations about her fiancé’s brutal 85-hour work week in a single blog post which eventually led to three class action lawsuits and a $14.9M judgement against the company he worked for.