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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.

J1L01 TIL that the world's largest video game studio is headquartered in a former textile factory
R7vZj TIL that a loofah sponge is actually a type of cucumber and not from the ocean.
ZZ6Y TIL The sum of odd numbers starting at 1 is always a square number.
J1AXV TIL there's no legit professional wrestling (at least in the US)
QMmE TIL the Rwandan Parliament is the only one in the world with a female majority.