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TIL Federal prosecutors built a hacking case against a John Kane, a man who raked in half a million dollars exploiting a minor glitch in a video poker machine. Kane’s lawyer said, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” They won

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grWjD TIL That the summit of the Mont Blanc (highest mountain in Western Europe) is at the center of a border dispute between France and Italy that couldn’t be resolved since more than 200 years.
N7pMQ TIL about the powers of Queen Elizabeth II, that she can fire the whole Australian government, has her own personal poet, can drive without a license, owns every Dolphin in British waters
nee79 TIL Marlon Brando was the last person to reject a winning Oscar award (1973 best actor for The Godfather). He did it to protest the film industry's poor treatment of Native Americans. When a young Native American woman gave her speech in Brando's place, part of the crowd booed.
mbxR TIL in 1919, a British officer ordered his troops to fire at a nonviolent gathering of people celebrating a religious festival in India, leading to 1000 deaths and 1500 injuries.
v1W1K TIL that from 1956 to 1977, Mississippi had a government commission empowered to investigate anyone suspected of supporting Black civil rights, and that encouraged businesses and landlords to fire and evict Black residents.