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TIL that a group of teenagers back in the early 2000s exploited a park bench’s free dial-up connection (no I’m not kidding this was an actual thing) by making a couple of international calls, racking up a lot of costs for msn, the provider of the connection.

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6EyP8 TIL a baby llama is called a cria
m1j7Y TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued those who downloaded them. The matter reached the FBI and The Pirate Bay collaborated with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.
5YabQ TIL that the British Medical Journal does an annual Christmas Issue, where they publish research-quality but satirical articles, like a randomized trial on the effectiveness of parachutes, or investigating the driving behaviors of different physician specialties
Rn6 TIL Hallie Berry personally accepted her award for Worst Actress for her role in Catwoman. Her accepted speech included the line “First of all, I want to thank Warner Brothers. Thank you for putting me in a piece of shit, god-awful movie… It was just what my career needed.”
G9J1 TIL killer whales know that great white sharks need to move to breath, and will hold them upside down in order to kill them.