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TIL that Molex to SATA adapters can catch fire if they lack the right shielding

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BgX7k TIL that Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick created the famous - and somewhat ubiquitous - red, black and white Che Guevara image. Fitzpatrick, aged 16, met Guevara in Ireland too. Fitzpatrick began distributing for free, stating ‘I literally wanted it to breed like rabbits. I wanted it to spread.’
oQDo TIL the founder and the original leader of the Rolling Stones got kicked out of the band and then died less than a month later
GeN4 TIL that Poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec survived a German concentration camp by killing his guard with a shovel that was given to him to dig his own grave – and then escaping in the guards uniform.
xjmw TIL Pavlov’s dogs were eaten during the Siege of Leningrad
R5bB6 TIL that the Iceberg That Sank the Titanic likely had one week to live, two at most.