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TIL Juice Jacking is a type of cyberattack where public USB charging points double as data connection points, installing malware or copying data. Free USB charging points can be used to steal your data.

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v1gr8 TIL that under the small French village of Naours there was an underground city where at its height 3000 people lived. Originally a quarry in Roman times the site started to be used individuals to hide from invaders/raiders. It was during the Thirty Year war the community reached its height. There w
pYd9O TIL Jimmy Carter holds multiple presidential records, including being the longest-living and longest-retired president in US history. He also became the first president to reach the age of 95 and to have lived 40 years after his inauguration.
yODX TIL in a scene in the sitcom Three’s Company, John Ritter’s scrotum falls out of his shorts. Nickelodeon deleted the scene for reruns. In response, Ritter said: “I’ve requested that (Nickelodeon) air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t.”
7rdLZ TIL: About the “Little Red Engine” zoetrope record that played a children’s song while showing a movie to kids at the same time. It was published in 1956.
R5ml TIL that there is a boat which sails around to countries with restrictive abortion laws, and offers abortions in international waters.