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TIL that Luis Alvarez, designed the implosion mechanism for the "Fat Boy" plutonium bomb also discovered the theory that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs

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GAJQQ TIL of Quintus Quincy Quigley, the founder of Paducah, Kentucky
QJ4Md TIL that Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker is still in jail and hasn't been to trial for murdering a gay lawyer that had sex with him.
rN9gy TIL about one of the most crucial cybersecurity attacks in history, the SolarWinds hack. The attack, which was discovered in December 2020, compromised the networks of numerous government agencies including the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Treasury Department.
gr5e7 TIL that Coca Cola ran a #MakeItHappy Twitter campaign where a bot would turn negative tweets into ASCII art. It was quickly pulled after it kept tweeting lines from Mein Kampf.
p88bG TIL that 39% of film industry professionals illegally download movies.