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TIL that in 2010 security researchers were invited to try to tamper with an Internet voting pilot. Within 36 hours they had made the website play the Michigan fight song and changed all the votes to write-ins for various fictional robots and computers.

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oBmO8 TIL the raised reflectors in between lanes on the highway also indicate direction. Normally they reflect white or yellow but if they appear red, it’s becasue you are going the wrong way.
neMM7 TIL blackcurrants are outlawed in most of the United States.
x6P8b TIL Potatoes boulangère gets its name from an old practice in French villages, where householders without their own ovens would take the prepared dish to the village bakery. After the baker had finished making his bread, the potato dish would cook slowly while the oven gradually died down
d4e7 TIL there exists a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas.
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