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TIL that a child was prosecuted as an adult for having naked images of himself on his own phone

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16nKD TIL Former U.S. Army sergeant who worked in military intelligence and carried a top secret security clearance was arrested , charged while trying to pass information to China
pkrN TIL that in 1987, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was tasked by his superiors to find a mole within the agency after the FBI’s moles in the KGB were caught. In reality, he was the mole, working with the KGB since 1979.
Z86EB TIL Introverts prefer to use a different neurotransmitter called acetylcholine (rather than dopamine as used by extroverts). Like dopamine, acetylcholine is also linked to pleasure; but it powers our abilities inwards, i.e to think deeply, reflect, and focus intensely on one thing for a long time.
DQgoV TIL the 1978 Saturday Night Live song "King Tut" with Steve Martin was one of the most expensive sketches the show had attempted at the time. Producer Lorne Michaels put everything behind the production.
R79Aj TIL Only three sciences get Nobel awards: chemistry, physics and physiology. Mathematics is ignored, as are computing, robotics and artificial intelligence as well as environmental sciences. Modern science is also a group affair, rather than the genius of a few scientists