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

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jNWON TIL in 1917, Salvation Army volunteers provided supplies and baked goods to American soldiers. The women fried doughnuts in the soldiers' helmets and were known as "Doughnut Lassies" popularizing doughnuts in the USA. National Doughnut Day is now celebrated on the first Friday of June every year.
Q0XX TIL Collodictyon is an extremely ancient and rare microorganism which is not closely related to any known kingdom of life.
ADglg TIL A dad in China hired gamers to kill his son in video games so the son would start looking for a job and get a life
KRP6 TIL that the songs of blue whales have been becoming progressively deeper each year. There is no explanation for this mysterious voice change.
r76M TIL there’s a line of 70 foot long concrete arrows that bisects the country longitudinally all the way from San Francisco to New York City. They’re from the pre-digital age and were installed by the Federal gov’t in 1924 with 50’ tall towers with rotating gas-powered lights to aid lost pilots.