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TIL An Australian hacker was jailed for causing millions of litres of raw sewage into parks and rivers

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BaxK TIL; A typical adult human brain runs on around 12 watts—a fifth of the power required by a standard 60 watt lightbulb.
yQo5w TIL of Philoxenus, a Court Poet for the Tyrant of Syracuse, who was jailed & sent to the quarries for voicing a bad opinion about his poetry, but later pardoned, & brought back for another reading. When the tyrant asked how he liked it, he turned to the guards & said "take me back to the quarries."
R7eR4 TIL that before women became the mainstay telephone operators were teenage boys. The change came about when the lads being pesky teenagers pulled too many pranks, got drunk on the job and swore down the phone
YpLkB TIL Away from home, Dickens would realign his bed to face north, and he had to be facing north before he could write, as he felt this would foster his creativity.
aQYb TIL only 11% of kamikaze pilots hit their targets.