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TIL that a 15 year old hacker hacked into the computers of the Department of Defense & NASA, gaining access to critical ISS code, and later committed suicide because of having ‘no faith in the justice system’

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neyXo TIL that Series 2 of the British sitcom Dad's Army has three episodes and two Christmas specials missing. This was because the BBC wiped them and reused the video tape to save money and storage.
4Xj1X TIL the Windover Archeological Site is a small muck pond 5 miles from Cape Canaveral that contained the remains from 168 humans buried in clusters, in five or six episodes scattered over a thousand years during the Archaic period.
WE59 TIL that during the filming of “Blazing Saddles,” a man walked into a scene of the movie. He wasn’t a part of the cast or crew, but the director, Mel Brooks, decided to leave him in the movie for comical effect.
dDx09 TIL A French hospital was partially cleared out after an 88-year-old man came in with a WW1 shell lodged in his anus.
0wZoM TIL Of a Greek courtesan who managed to avoid a death sentence by showing the judges her boobs and claiming it would be a ‘crime against the gods’ to destroy something so beautiful.