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TIL that in 1999, the CEO of Sun Microsystems responded to increasing concerns about computer privacy by saying “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”

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N7lJP TIL about the Great Stork Derby, a contest held by a Toronto financier and practical joker which bequeathed the residue of his significant estate to the woman in Toronto who could produce the most children in the decade following his death. Two women won and were each given $1.91m in today's dollars
J1wNB TIL about the Ryfast subsea tunnel system in Rogaland county, Norway, which is the longest (8.9mi) and deepest (958ft) undersea road tunnel on earth
KOE86 TIL of Operation Moolah, a 1953 USAF effort to obtain a combat capable Soviet MiG-15 jet by rewarding any defecting Communist pilot 100k cash. The person who won it didn't even know it was being offered.
EB0P TIL that the breathing fluid in The Abyss(1989) is real and that the scene with the rat breathing the fluid wasn’t faked, with the rat actually breathing the oxygenated fluid.
6909X TIL Vatican City leads the world in per-capita wine consumption due to its sacramental use