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TIL the targeted phishing of corporate executives is known as “Whaling”

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6E1nQ TIL 22-yr-old Canadian man John McCue took it upon himself to fill potholes with the sign: "I filled the potholes. Pay me instead of your taxes." Drivers gave him cash, coffee and joints for filling in potholes.
xV7bD TIL that two brothers painstakingly hand made a large collection of Pokemon cards because they were too poor to buy them.
4MZ5 TIL that in his second book written in 1928 , Hitler ranked the U.S. as the MOST dangerous potential enemy. He saw majority of Americans as “Aryans” ruled by Jewish plutocracy; he saw UK as potential ally, Russians “incapable of intelligent thought” and France rapidly “Negroizing” itself
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nenB7 TIL there is an ant megacolony that spans Japan, Europe, and the United States