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TIL that Google Maps vehicles collected private data including passwords, from unprotected WiFi networks and transferred it to a Google data center

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4k66J TIL that upon losing the 2002 Senate Election in Minnesota, Former Vice President Walter Mondale became the first (and only) major party candidate in U.S. History to have lost a general election in all 50 states. He had lost in the other 49 states when he ran against President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
jOKN TIL while in prison, mucisian MF Grimm paid $100,000 for 1 day bail to record an entire album. While in prison he studied law and reduced his life sentence to 3 years.
Z40p TIL that in the state of Florida it is illegal for heterosexual couples to live together before marriage. Gay couples, however, are exempt.
b9Kd9 TIL: An Alaskan husky in the Iditarod will burn about 9,666 calories each day; a rate of caloric burn 3.5 times that of a human Tour de France cyclist. The aerobic capacity of a typical Iditarod dog is three times that of a human Olympic marathon runner.
N7AJ8 TIL the "Cardinal King" Henry the Chaste of Portugal never expected the throne, as he was an elderly man vowed to celibacy, doomed without successors. He attempted to resign the clergy to produce an heir, but Spain pressured the pope to deny him. When Henry died, Spain annexed Portugal for 60 years