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TIL an 18yo was arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system

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oRZeW TIL: There are over 50 billion individual birds in the world – about six birds for every human on the planet.
XE5wX TIL the Vallejo Police Department is attempting to collect the Zodiac Killer's DNA from the back of stamps he used during his correspondence. The DNA results are due this month.
BM1b TIL that when trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour.” And that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies as they were accelerated to that speed.”
d8Ml8 TIL some WWII Allies who ended up in Switzerland were housed at the Wauwilermoos penal camp. Conditions there were brutal, violating the 1929 Geneva Conventions, and the self-appointed warden was a Nazi sympathizer. The camp was mostly ignored until 2013.
kJj94 TIL that Louis Joseph Xavier, a French prince, died after developing an injury from a fall that turned fatal. Louis said that he developed his injury after being pushed by a playmate, but he refused to say who pushed him so they would not be punished. He was only 9 years old.