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TIL: the FBI developed and sold a "security enhanced" android OS that was actually a honeypot leading to more than 800 arrests

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ZwjY TIL That The Shawshank Redemption, #1 film on IMDB only managed to gross $27,058,304 in 94’ making it the 51st highest grossing film of that year - behind films like Street Fighter, Beverly Hills Cops III and D2 Mighty Ducks
QJxlL TIL about John Gurdon, who was ranked last out of 250 boys in his year group in Biology and in a progress report, his teacher said that pursuing Biology for him would be a "waste of time, for him and those who have to teach him". In 2012, John Gurdon won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine
X0a6k TIL The Jane's Addiction song "Jane Says", about Jane who had a heroin addiction and hoped to move to Spain after kicking her habit: Jane actually did exist, she did kick her habit, and she did move to Spain. However, she was not a sex worker as the song intimated.
J1wNB TIL about the Ryfast subsea tunnel system in Rogaland county, Norway, which is the longest (8.9mi) and deepest (958ft) undersea road tunnel on earth
n0Rr TIL when the islands of St Kilda were evacuated, the local subspecies of house mouse quickly went extinct as it depended so closely on human settlement