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

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xvE5 TIL in WWII Japan used underwater manned suicide torpedos called Kaiten to destroy American ships. If they were successful, they blew up. If they missed, they sank to the bottom of the ocean.
69P8Y TIL of the First Night Effect, where essentially only half your brain sleeps when you're in a new environment.
kJ4B1 TIL Portland, OR was named after Portland, ME instead of Boston, MA based on the flip of a penny by two early residents
mjQv TIL: After batman and robin rescued it from a slaughterhouse, DC comics included a bat-cow
OGJr7 TIL about the Mariel boatlift, which saw around 125000 people leave Cuba, among them political dissenters, homosexuals and prison inmates