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TIL that hackers used a smart fish tank to gain access to a casino’s IT network. Gives new meaning to the term phishing....

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JYmZl TIL of this Black Hole that is 34 billion times the mass of the Sun, devours almost one Sun's worth of mass every day.
8aBaL TIL that during the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. So this guy is the only reason why all of us are still alive today
oBk6r TIL Steve Jobs used to get a new car every 6 months to avoid driving around with a license plate
m1ZQx TIL there is a Mount Kennedy in Canada, named after the president JFK a year after his assassination. Canada selected it because it was close to the US-Canada border and it serves as a symbol of the two nations' friendship.
OGlLg TIL around the same time George Washington's family moved to Virginia, another branch of the family moved to the Netherlands and later became Bavarian nobility, the Barons Von Washington. Von Washington wrote to his relative(6 generations removed) asking to serve in the US army, but got rejected