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V6OQ TIL While hacking a Fortune 500 company, 16 year old Sean Parker was unable to log out after his father unplugged and confiscated his keyboard. Because his IP address was exposed, F.B.I. agents tracked him down and arrested him
MeyY8 TIL that after the Norman conquest, English nobility adopted the title Countess, but rejected "Count" in favor of keeping the term "Earl" because Count sounded too much like "cunt."
gV18 TIL Only 1.38% of Little Boy, the bomb that fell on Hiroshima, fissioned. Yet is still had a blast radius of 4.4 sq. miles.
wLpkE TIL that British Member of Parliament, Arnold Wilson, joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in October 1939. He stated that "I have no desire to shelter myself and live in safety behind the ramparts of the bodies of millions of our young men."
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