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TIL in 2011, Sony accidentally tweeted out the jailbreak code for the PlayStation 3 using the account for their fictional spokesperson, Kevin Butler.

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wRdY TIL in 2010 the Walt Disney Company nearly sold the ABC network, the sale was cancelled because of an FBI investigation into insider trading
x6o8w TIL the length of the US rail network is twice that of Europe
AZVl TIL Shirley Chisholm became in 1968, the first African-American woman elected to Congress and survived 3 assassination attempts in 1972 while being the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
5VvQB TIL one satoshi is about one one-hundredth of a cent, so handing out 25 sats an hour costs roughly three cents
GA4vj TIL there was an early Christian sect called the Severian Encratites who taught that the Devil created women and “the lower half” of men. They believed vines came from the Devil as well, because of their snake-like tendrils, whereas the Devil himself was created by the Gnostic power, Ialdaboth.