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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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X0JA6 TIL in 2012 an Oregon woman found a letter from a Chinese labor camp prisoner in a box of Halloween decorations she bought from Kmart. She publicized the letter. The man, who had been released in 2010, saw a news story about it and wrote another letter just for her, thanking her for doing that.
loeOK TIL the NHL is Canada's National Hockey League. The first US team didn't join until several years after it was established.
Xv18 TIL that “New Car Smell” is actually a dangerous cocktail of hundreds of toxic chemicals
jNpEj TIL that Blake Lively has a ton of acting siblings and half siblings. Her half sister was Teen Witch, her half brother was in National Lampoons European Vacation, her brother was in The L Word. Her BIL is Coach Bolton in High School Musical.
OokY TIL In 1899, President McKinley was assured by the director of the US Patent Office that everything that can be invented has already been invented.