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TIL that in 2001 Yahoo! Mail accidentally changed words like medieval to medireview to prevent XSS Attacks.

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RLZw TIL we nuked space in 1962
Wk9N4 TIL that during WW2, Bicycle (card company) smuggled escape maps in their card decks to help allied POWS escape from German POW camps. To reveal the map, a card was soaked in water as to separate the two paper layers that make up the cards. The map was on the insides of the card.
ANkPn TIL A Ship owned by JP Morgan Chase seized in $1.3 billion cocaine in 2019.
1WxW TIL that there is a cave in Turkey that was believed to be the “Gates of Hell”. It was given the name because the cave contains toxic gases that, if inhaled could kill you in an “instant”.
xZo1 TIL we are now experiencing one of the largest coral bleaching event on record, due to the current, intense, El Niño conditions. Bleaching occurs when the corals expel the algae that live in their tissues because of extreme sea temperatures, causing large swaths of reef to die.