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TIL of a man named Simon Bunce who was arrested for buying child porn online, and lost his job and family over it, only to be revealed that someone in Indonesia hacked his credit card.

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jg4X TIL that in England darts was considered a game of chance until a 1908 court case where a local champion demonstrated that he could hit any number on the board the court requested. Following the demonstration, the judge found darts to be a game of skill.
pY5Pp TIL that a fake software company duped over 200K people with fake university degrees in a elaborate scheme employing 2000 people
awn1o TIL To visit every child in the world, Santa Claus would need to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound
PYKVG TIL there are isolated tribes that violently reject contact with the outside world near India. They are some of the last people to be untouched by modern civilization.
a8vny Today I Learned of the Lost Battalion in WW1, an American unit who was surrounded for 6 days after pushing too far forward into German lines, subject to friendly artillery fire and their only contact was via carrier pigeon