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8aYpL TIL about Jon Postel, a researcher who in 1998 hijacked the internet to prove a point about it's poor security. Instead of being reprimanded he was appointed to run ICANN, the authority now responsible for overseeing domain naming and ensuring the internet's ongoing stability.
R7ol7 TIL that a black cemetery in Florida disappeared 100 years ago. The local newspaper started looking for it and through old documents learned that maybe a public housing complex had been built over it. An archaeologist used ground-penetrating radar to see what was in the ground. He found 120 coffins.
yQ7bX TIL the Las Vegas Strip is located in Paradise
Z8nDp TIL that the 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people of India than WWI killed globally.
MY8K TIL of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 where over 1500 peaceful protestors were shot dead in 10 minutes by the British in India