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TIL that a room known as ‘Room 641A’ in the AT&T telecommunications backbone houses beamsplitters capable of monitoring all the internet traffic in the US. It was largely thought to be a myth until PRISM revealed its existence in 2007.

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eyk TIL There has never been any record of a wild Orca killing a human, they only kill humans in captivity.
b6mP7 TIL a depressed man built a secret room within his bedroom containing a homemade guillotine with a timer, took sleeping pills, and set the timer to kill himself without his father knowing what he was doing for months. He was successful.
nePYr TIL in 1983 the top dart players of the world including all active former world champions broke away from the British Darts Organization and founded their own organization, and although there have been conciliation movements, the split remains to this day.
mxgex TIL that the New York Mets' team colors come from the rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. When the teams moved to California, leaving New York with just one team, the city created the Mets and used one of each of the previous colors to preserve the rivalry.
611Q TIL in 1976, a struggling Princeton undergrad wrote his junior term paper on how to make an atomic bomb, using information he gathered from physics textbooks and declassified documents. He got an A in the class, but never got his paper back because it was seized by the US government.