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TIL chopsticks from Vancouver International Airport's food courts are upcycled into housewares and furniture

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n1LG TIL: the term “sniper” comes from how hard it is to shoot the snipe bird
0wGoM TIL Clifford Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg, caught a KGB recruit by making the world's first honeypot trap using 50 old computer terminals and an office phone line. The network access issue that led Stoll to the hacker was initially over 9 seconds of unpaid computer time in a library.
X0ZnD TIL that summertime Atari Computer Camps were were located at colleges and school campuses. Young people between the ages of 10-18 could enroll and learn on Atari 400 and Atari 800 computers as well as take part in various sports, crafts, and activities and sleep in residence halls.
nZW9 TIL of Vladimir Komarov who was a Russian cosmonaut.He was burned to death during re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere,crying in rage and cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship.
YplDB TIL.... That at Grateful Dead shows deaf people used to hold balloons so they could actually feel the vibrations of the music