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TIL that there is a search engine called Shodan (after System Shock’s main antagonist) that can not only find things that Google can’t, but can be used to control or hack into systems such as traffic lights and security cameras.

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x6p4g TIL about the 'Loudness War' - beginning in the 1980s and peaking in the early 2000s, music producers and broadcasters increased the audio levels of albums and radio stations. As a result of consumer complaints, US legislators passed the CALM act which mandated maximum broadcast sound levels.
xxKk TIL OJ Simpson was originally cast to play Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.
0QON TIL that there are bacterial life forms that live on pure electrons
6y7J TIL in 1982 as a protest against actions by the United States federal government, Key West in Florida seceded from and then declared war on the United States, surrendered one minute later and then applied for one billion dollars in foreign aid.
M74v8 TIL 3 men escaped Alcatraz in a raft made of raincoats. The FBI never found them.