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TIL When Half-Life 2 had its source code hacked and leaked, Valve offered the hacker a job interview so the FBI could trap him into admitting his responsibility for the hack and arrest him.

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VBk7G TIL In 2022, Thailand's health minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced that the government will distribute one million free cannabis plants to households across the country.
RbW4 TIL “goodbye” is actually a contraction for “God be with ye.”
R7ly7 TIL about the El Cazador shipwreck, a single ship carrying 19 tons of Spanish silver sunk in 1784, causing Spain to give up Louisiana to France. Had this ship not sunk, the Louisiana Purchase never would have happened.
b9R7a TIL about Andrew Jackson's assassination attempt. After Lawrence's pistols misfired, Jackson credited divine providence with intervening on his behalf. A century later, both pistols were tested and fired at the first shot. The odds that both would misfire was estimated to be about 1 in 125,000.