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TIL Smallville actor Allison Mack was sentenced to 3 years of prison due to her involvement with sex trafficking through the cult NXIVM

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oVEo TIL John Chambers, the make-up artist portrayed by John Goodman in the movie Argo, not only won the CIA’s Intelligence Medal of Merit for his role in helping rescue American embassy personnel from Iran, he created the pointed ears worn by Leonard Nimoy as Spock in Star Trek.
l7aA5 TIL about the DIMI-S "Sexophone", a device made by ground-breaking synthesiser pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi in 1972, which allowed up to four people to generate sounds based on how they touched each other's bodies, and apparently only reached its full expressive range if everyone involved was naked
Opm4 TIL that in 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’.
M7BG7 TIL the front man for Powerman 5000 is the younger brother of Rob Zombie.
W7dbB TIL Elvis Presley's manager in the 1950's sold "I Hate Elvis" buttons to make money off people who didn't buy Elvis merchandise