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TIL about Gerald Gaulta 16 year old committed to juvenile detention for six years for making an prank telephone call

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Q7bd TIL the first spam email and the first DoS attack occurred on the same day. A law firm sent a spam message over the early web, and annoyed recipients flooded them with angry responses, crashing their computer.
6E5kJ TIL To solve the problem of communicating to humans 10,000 years from now about nuclear waste sites one solution proposed was to form an atomic priesthood like the catholic church to preserve information of locations and danger of nuclear waste using rituals and myths.
16nBX TIL drying hands is as important as washing them
agVy TIL An anecdote has it that when Philip II sent a message to Sparta saying “If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta”, the Spartans responded with the single, terse reply: “If.”
BraNr TIL using sheep as subjects for Huntington's disease research, scientists discovered they are able to recognize human faces, even from photographs. Upon seeing a photograph of its handler for the first time (the sheep had never seen an image of this person before), the sheep did a 'double take'.