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TIL that in 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’.

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ne7kr TIL The term "rocket-propelled grenade", though frequently encountered, is a backronym of the "RPG" from the translation of Ручной Противотанковый Гранатомёт (Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomyot) Russian for "handheld anti-tank grenade launcher" and not based on a true literal translation.
xZRb TIL the One-child Policy introduced by the Chinese government in the late ‘70s ended on January 1, 2016, when it was changed to a Two-child Policy. Under the new rule, couples still have to ask permission to have a second child.
WkGp9 TIL Japan's film rating system includes PG-12 & R-15+ ratings.
ZBkp TIL On August 1st each year the people of Warsaw, Poland stop everything to pay homage to the Warsaw Uprising the largest rebellion of WWII. Which cost cost over 200,000 lives and destruction of the capital.
LkWPr TIL that Saturns’ rings are, cosmically speaking, a very brief event. We are about halfway through their 200 million year lifespan and are very lucky as a species to be alive to witness them. “Some velociraptor with a telescope looking at Saturn would not have seen rings.”