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TIL a man tried to shoot an armadillo but the bullet ricocheted off the shell and hit his mother in law

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6E6nm TIL Denmark built a waste to energy plant that is a giant ski slope (open year round) and it also includes the worlds tallest artificial climbing wall.
NXaVN TIL in 1977, a Soviet nuclear reactor aboard the Kosmos 954 satellite malfunctioned and fell from orbit, scattering radioactive debris across northern Canada. The cleanup cost millions of dollars, most of which the USSR refused to pay.
76gr TIL that the city of Pompeii was covered in graffiti, including one case saying “Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!”
4pDa TIL that Myspace was purchased by News Corp for $580 million in 2005 and sold by News Corp for $35 million in 2011
8eRP TIL That former Reddit co-owner Aaron Swartz persistently hacked into JSTOR, an on-line archive of academic journals, to open access to the public. His endeavors included hard-wiring himself into the MIT network to assign himself 2 ip addresses.