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TIL "Fox scents" are so potent that a small leak from a lab resulted in a building evacuation

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9wM8r TIL In 2012 Jimmy Zhong uncovered a coding error on the now defunct crypto market Silk Road that allowed him to withdraw more funds than he deposited. He stole 51,680 BTC ($3.4 Billion) and stayed anonymous for ten years before finally getting caught and arrested in '21 and was sentenced to 1 year.
rloo TIL “Jim Wilson” is the American Airlines code for coffin or cadaver shipments
loj65 TIL: In the 1880s, the Fenian Brotherhood, Irish separatists living in the US, commissioned John Holland to build a submarine to attack British ships. Due to a legal dispute, they refused to pay for the submarine, stole it, couldn't pilot it, and Holland refused to teach them.
x61Eo TIL that in 1894 an elephant in malaysia charged into a moving train to defend its herd. the train derailed and 2 people were killed.
wLJ96 TIL Author Robert E. Howard imagined Conan the Barbarian and his people the Cimmerians as being the direct ancestors of Irish and Scottish people.