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TIL that the FBI arrested 5 Israelis on 9/11 for filming the attacks and celebrating with cries of ‘joy and mockery’.

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QJ0RL TIL that in 2007, the Australian Government spent $84 million on a porn filter. A 16-year old boy, Tom Wood, cracked the filter in less than 40 minutes.
N716 TIL There is an underwater breathing system other than SCUBA called CCUBA, and it doesn’t produce any bubbles.
Oo7VR TIL the waitlist for a liver transplant in california was going to take over a year, so steve jobs bought a house in tennessee, giving him access to their waitlist, which would only take four months. by doing this, he effectively cut in line on the national transplant list
AYy4 TIL that some children in Colombia need to use a a quarter of a mile high zip line above the Rio Negra because it’s the only way to get to school
9Zdm TIL that Woody Allen has been working on the same typewriter since he was sixteen and all of his films were written on it.