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TIL the founder of “Pretty Good Privacy” encryption got around USA’s munition export laws by printing the entire code as a book and claiming 1st amendment rights

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6EL5J TIL The Beatles song 'Mean Mr. Mustard' was inspired by a Scotsman, John Mustard, who gave his wife only £1 in the year before they parted. Lennon read about in the Daily Mirror on June 7th 1967.
6EAlm TIL an Assistant US Attorney investigating sexual predators & drug rings was found stabbed 36 times, hundreds of miles from his home. Some wounds were on his back, his hands shredded, his scrotum & neck sliced & there was an unidentified fingerprint in his car. His death was ruled suicide.
xVOQb TIL Jello mix can be eaten straight out of the box and even used as fun dip. I think I found my new fav snack.
BXLx TIL that the first woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science in the United States also earned a Masters degree in Mathematics and Physics, helped develop computer programming languages, AND she was a Catholic nun.
wLr8P The novel coronavirus infection will generate immunity, but it might not last anywhere near as long as vaccine-induced COVID-19 resistance, a researcher said. COVID-19 survivors might get infected again in the coming years, the researcher noted, which tends to be true of all coronaviruses and not just SARS-CoV-2. A vaccine might be able to generate a more robust immune response, the Oxford University researcher said.