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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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e0ER4 TIL the idea for a military Command Information Center ("CIC"), was taken “specifically, consciously, and directly” from the spaceship Directrix in the Lensman novels of E. E."Doc" Smith in a surge of refitting and retraining during 1943 after the battle of the Coral Sea through the Solomon Islands
Me4K0 TIL that Muhammed Ali was first directed to take up boxing at the age of 12 after his bicycle was stolen. Police officer and boxing coach Joe E. Martin met him fuming over the theft. Ali told Martin that he was going to “whup” the thief. Martin told him that he had better learn how to box first.
W7Vm8 TIL that Larry Yount is the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to be credited with one pitching appearance without facing a batter. In his only major league appearance, on September 15, 1971, he left the game during his warm-up pitches due to injury.
LQNLr TIL that in 2013, an officer of Nashville's Covenant Church (which runs the school where yesterday's shooting occurred) sued the Covenant organization for allegedly shielding a child molester. The whistleblow charged that Covenant engages in "cult-like abuse of authority over vulnerable children."
p8wJ4 TIL One of the greatest boxers of all time was a man of 5'7 in height called Sam Langford who other greats like Jack Dempsey refused to fight because of his power. He fought until aged 43, at that point he was almost completely blind.