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TIL Hackers worked out how to open BMW car doors via SMS by reverse engineering their assist technology.

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KOgWJ TIL that Frankie Muniz has suffered two strokes, has suffered significant memory loss, including losing memories from his childhood acting days.
x6eK1 TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues
6EQEm TIL: During the beginning of the cold war the USSR penetrated the Los Alamos nuclear lab in USA and stole sensitive info. At the end of the cold war China penetrated the same lab and stole info of the most advanced miniaturized US nuke and replicated it and improved it.
7kBP TIL Betty White is older than sliced bread
QNv7e TIL that an Ethiopian athlete, unable to find a suitable pair of shoes, ran the marathon barefoot at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, won the race, and set a new world record.