Post * M8dB — Curious Curator

› added 9 years ago

300

TIL about a hacker who, while serving five years for hacking, signed up for a prison IT class, and successfully hacked into the prison’s mainframe

Read more

mx66R TIL Norway's Stad ship tunnel will be the world's first. The tunnel will connect two fjords to bypass what would be otherwise dangerous navigational hazards.

e0vED TIL that Ian Fleming invented James Bond’s signature Vodka Martini purely to create “an illusion of depth”, and hated the drink when he tried making it a few months later

0a1 TIL there was a DC villain called “Snowflame” who gained super powers by doing lots of cocaine.

0wK4N TIL there was a sex cult community called Rajneeshpuram in Oregon back in the 1980s. They had poisoned over 750 people to commit voter fraud and had multiple assassination attempts on the Wasco county officials although none of the assassination succeeded.

PY99Z TIL all alcoholic drinks sold in the United States are required to be mildly radioactive. If alcohol is made in a lab it won't have any radioactive signature but alcohol made from plants will always be slightly radioactive due to the background radiation in the air and ground.