Post * BVKy — Curious Curator

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Today I learned that the phrase “First World War” was in use to describe the war from 1914-1918 as early as 1920, 19 years before there was a second world war

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OOQa TIL in 2011 researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois developed a way to hack into voting machines and modify votes from up to half a mile away. They showed that this could be done using $26 worth of electronics and an 8th-grade science education.

JY7Pv TIL Hulk Hogan was fired by WWF chairman Vince Mcmahon Sr. for accepting the role of Thunderlips in Rocky III. Due of his popularity from this film, two years later Mcmahons son Vince Jr, brought him back to the WWF using Hogans fame to eventually create WrestleMania.

mxDky TIL that a man in the UK grew tired of cold callers to his phone line, so he set up his own phone line as a premium rate number. When cold callers phoned him, he would be making money by keeping them talking.

OoKa TIL Charles Manson’s mother once sold him to a waitress for a pitcher of beer. His uncle retrieved him some days later.

ne54P TIL that the Dail Up Tone you used to hear when connecting to the internet is actually two machines (modems) communicating with one another