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TIL that the programmer for the Original Doom, John Carmack, broke into a school to steal an Apple II computer using home-made thermite; he later went to juvenile detention and forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

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Wx4X TIL Swedish Navy detected underwater sounds suspected to be hostile Russian submarines in the 80s. The suspicion escalated to a diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia. It turned out later that these sounds came from fish farts, a discovery which led to the Ig Nobel Prize.
nWoJG TIL that in 1974, filmmaker Bob Clark directed a horror film, "Black Christmas," about a deranged killer who murdered girls on a sorority campus during the Christmas season. 9 years later in 1983, Clark once again directed a Christmas film, this time a family-comedy, titled "A Christmas Story."
MeNdb TIL mosquitos cause more deaths in a single day then sharks have in the past 100 years.
4Xa7g TIL 15 years after the US allied with France to defeat Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, the US switched sides by allying with Great Britain to defeat France in the "Quasi-War of the Atlantic". The United States won both times.
5VO69 TIL The Machame route is the most popular route on Mount Kilimanjaro and doable even for first time backpackers with little to no altitude experience over 6, 7 days