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TIL A hacker group named UGNazi took down the Papa John’s website because the company “took 2 hours longer than expected to deliver my food.”

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NGbP TIL that horseshoe crabs have blue blood that is highly valued by the biotech industry and sells for $15,000 per quart (1 quart = roughly 1 liter).
ZpJ7Y TIL that "Disco Duck," a novelty disco song featuring a talking duck, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976
9PrB TIL that Mattel sued the band Aqua because of the double entendres in the song ‘Barbie Girl’. The judge awarded in favour of Aqua, saying “The parties are advised to chill”
Z8eGQ TIL the early YouTube hit "Charlie Bit My Finger" was found on Osama Bin Laden's computer by the CIA after his death
YDvG TIL that two conductors have died while conducting the second act of Wagner’s opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’. They collapsed from heart attacks at exactly the same point in the music due its technical demands.