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TIL a man almost went to jail for child porn on his work issued laptop. He only got off after they found that the PC visited as many as 40 child porn sites a minute even while he was nowhere near it.

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GAlk1 TIL Dave Gahan hated shooting the video for "Enjoy the Silence" because he didn't understand Dutch Director Anton Corbijn's idea for the video and walking around desolate places dressed like a King made him feel like an idiot. The video helped to propel the album "Violator" to global acclaim.
61NW TIL of Liviu Librescu, a Romanian-born internationally renowned professor of aerospace engineering at Virginia Tech. He survived the holocaust. At age 76 he held the door of his classroom shut while the gunman attempted to enter it. Although shot 5 times, only 1 of his 23 students died that day.
Ypakv TIL Palau announced it would create the world's first shark sanctuary banning commercial shark fishing. The sanctuary protects about 230,000 square miles of ocean. Palau received the Future Policy Award from World Future Council, because "Palau is a global leader in protecting marine ecosystems.”
Yp4Nv TIL that in 2015, police in Australia were called to a flat after neighbours were woken by the sounds of screaming, yelling, and destruction of furniture. It turned out to be a man trying to kill a spider.
WkGbB TIL Gary Burghoff (Radar O’Reilley from MASH) and Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) were in a band together in the late 1960’s