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TIL that the president of Adobe software. Was kidnapped and held for 4 days.

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Z8Q0B TIL That women also competed as gladiators in ancient Rome and there is a marble relief dating to around the 2nd century A.D. depicting a bout between two women dubbed “Amazon” and “Achillia,” whom the inscription says fought to an honorable draw.
woeoY TIL: HP was busted multiple times shipping their laptops like the EliteBook, ProBook, Pavilion and Envy with keyloggers that could record keystrokes to a local file accessible by anyone. This alarming discovery by a cyber-security firm impacted over 460 laptop models. And it happend multiple times.
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