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TIL of “canary trapping”, a method for exposing an information leak by giving different versions of a sensitive document to each of several suspects and seeing which version gets leaked.

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bkX7 TIL in Japanese folklore, Otters were considered very dangerous as they would shapeshift into beautiful women or little children and kill men.
vmdx TIL every scene in Fight Club has a cup of Starbucks coffee in it, except the one where the coffee shop was destroyed.
W7GAL TIL that one of the biggest bestsellers of early modern Europe was the "Malleus Maleficarum" (the "Hammer of Witches")—a guidebook for prosecuting and killing witches. From 1400 to 1775, 100,000 people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and America, and around 50,000 were executed in Europe.
XEOYE TIL in 2006 a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches. When passengers alerted crew they could smell burning the flight made an emergency landing and the FBI were called in to conduct an investigation
NXnrM TIL that Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix to star in Wild, Wild West