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TIL Religious websites carry more malware than porn sites

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78bOp TIL that aside from telling Frodo "And you have my bow", Legolas never speaks directly to Frodo at all in the entire "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, including the extended editions.
x7ab TIL There is a tea that costs $1,025,000 per kilogram.
mkbv TIL that a Muslim cable TV network was created in 2004 to counter “extreme stereotypes” of Muslims. In 2009, the founder of the network was arrested for beheading his wife.
NXypQ TIL when D.B. Cooper hijacked NOA flight 305 in 1971, this was the 'Golden Age of Hijackings' with an average of 1 hijacking every 5 days. Amazingly, until Cooper successfully parachuted out of the plane at 10,000 feet into the freezing cold with $200,000, hijacking a plane was not a federal crime.
6EWG7 TIL Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once sneaked out of a White House event, commandeered an airplane, and went on a joyride to Baltimore.