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

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W7JrX TIL that if a Harvard student is found guilty of plagiarism or other cheating, they're not allowed to submit a course evaluation for that class
loAmK TIL Lord of the rings director (Peter Jackson) holds the largest private collection of WWI aero planes in the world.
Eg68V TIL the original version of “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” one of the most famous paintings in American history, was destroyed by an Allied bombing raid while on display in Bremen during WWII.
X0Br8 TIL about the Iguanodon featured on the Maidstone coat of arms, honouring the discovery of its fossilised remains in 1834 at Bensted’s Quarry, which helped reaffirm the hypothesis that such remains belonged to prehistoric animals.
6MoQ TIL that Washington state did not officially ban sex with animals until 2005. The impetus for the ban was the highly publicized death of a man who ruptured his colon during anal sex with a horse at an animal brothel.