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TIL: The first computer virus, "Creeper," was created in 1971 as an experiment. It displayed the message, "I'M THE CREEPER: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!" on infected systems. It was followed by the first antivirus, "Reaper," specifically designed to remove Creeper.

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b91B0 TIL that the largest Yakuza family had a tradition of handing out Halloween candy to trick or treaters
l8E7 TIL Walt Disney designed emblems for WWII planes and submarines.
rRb4d TIL about the 'attack of the dead men' when Russian soldiers poisoned by German combat gases, attacked Germans stationed at Osowiec stronghold, effectively causing them to panic at the sight of 'dead men coughing blood' attacking, and causing them to flee.
l7v0A TIL about James Wilkinson, the ranking general of the US Army twice for 14 years in the 1800's and the first governor of the Louisiana Territory was actually a spy for the Spanish Empire who repeatedly tried to conspire against his superiors to create a separatist settler state
0dkRR TIL: An entire Roman legion went missing in the 2nd Century AD, and we're still baffled as to what happened.