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

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Yp4GA TIL many medieval manuscript illustrations show armored knights fighting snails, and we don't know the meaning behind that.
loRja TIL that in 1972, there were only 12 paramedic units in North America. The TV show Emergency! starring Randolph Mantooth as Johnny Gage introduced people to the concept of pre-hospital care and CPR.
yWrp TIL that there’s an American city 2.4 miles away from Russia
69M8J TIL about the Markovic Affair a political scandal in France in 1968 that followed a violent death of Stefan Marković, a friend and bodyguard of actor Alain Delon. The press speculated Delon was involved. Marković's murder is still unsolved.
rRn4x TIL Australian singer Allan Caswell sued Sony, claiming song 'Christmas in Dixie' by US band Alabama copied Caswell's 1979 theme song to women's prison TV soap opera 'Prisoner', but lost