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TIL Hackers Could Launch Their Own Satellites to Create an ‘Uncensorable Internet’.

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ANPxd TIL in 2004, Chilean station Canal 13 inserted Cristal Beer commercial stings in the middle of a Star Wars showing, giving the impression as they were part of the movie.
D1ZWv TIL Al Capone was one of the first civilians to receive penicillin for treatment. However, it was already too late to cure his syphilis by that time.
RML6 TIL that the founder of Mitsubishi was an actual Samurai.
69eK7 TIL thieves used watermelon skin to slide ATM out of store in Colombia
om9R TIL that crack pipes are sold as fake flowers in a glass tube at convenience stores.