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TIL in 2002 a man tried to make a smiley face across the United States by rigging pipe bombs in mailboxes across the country

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O7PY TIL of a woman who presented a forged doctor’s note as an excuse for missing her sentencing for, that’s right, forgery.
ZL6a TIL that despite being the third largest country in the world, China only has one time zone, mostly based around the far Eastern portions (where most of the population lives). As a result, in Western regions such as Tibet, the sun officially rises at around 10:00 AM.
JYXav TIL of the Battle of Hainan Island (Chinese Civil War). The Communists conducted a successful landing operation using 2000 traditional wooden junks. This led the KMT Navy to underestimate them and tried to capture them, only for the junks to reveal artillery pieces, forcing a KMT Destroyer to flee.
0Ep5 TIL in June 2001 the longest train in the world set out across Western Australia. It was over 7 kilometres long and weighed nearly 100,000 tons.
XEDGE TIL in 1976, the world's first keystroke loggers were installed on electric typewriters in the US embassy in Moscow, and went undetected for nearly a decade.