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TIL Hackers Spoiled Their $1 Billion Bank Heist With a Typo

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KObvQ TIL that an animal's brains are also an essential part to tanning hides and furs, and each animal has exactly enough brains to tan its own hide.
GAG57 TIL Cheerios were introduced by General Mills in 1941 as "Cheerioats" but changed to "Cheerios" due to a trademark dispute with Quaker Oats
AyMo TIL Willem Arondeus, a gay Dutch artist and writer, helped in the resistance against the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. He was arrested and executed. His last testimony was “homosexuals are not cowards”.
D1X8p TIL, Pete Ham and Tom Evans, the songwriters of the song "Without You" (hit singles for Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey) both committed suicide. Ham's suicide was because of financial troubles and Evans' suicide was because of a dispute over songwriting royalties for this song.
Oo5d1 TIL: During the time of the Great Depression, a banker convinced struggling families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares which traded at $19. Later, the town became the single richest town per capita in the US with at least 67 millionaires.