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TIL Apple has a mysterious zero click exploit affecting most of their products that went largely unreported on

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9Ryr TIL a watch strapped to your ankle will eventually fall behind one strapped to your wrist due to time dilation
8aPMP TIL Rose Leslie who plays Ygritte in Game of Thrones grew up in Aberdeen's Lickleyhead Castle, and is a descendant of Charles II.
R71P9 TIL of Mockbusters, ripoffs of Blockbusters including the 1998 "Secret of Mulan" which ripped off Mulan and A Bugs Life, where all the characters were bugs.
0w0KN TIL award winning film critic Roger Ebert created the Boulder Pledge. A commitment to never buy anything offer from spam email or to forward spam or chain emails.
KOLg6 TIL that the "Fi" in "WiFi" doesn't mean anything (including Wireless Fidelity). The creators just called it that because it rhymed with "HiFi".