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TIL that pirates originally came up with Walking the Plank so that the condemned would be responsible for their own demise and they would not be charged with murder.

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v1oDB TIL a professional security tester named Jayson E. Street, was once hired to attempt to compromise the computers and networks of a bank in Beirut. He succeeded in the compromise and found several exploits, but was soon shocked to discover he had just robbed/hacked the wrong bank
KYjRw TIL about Anne Green, who was sentenced to death by hanging over the murder of her stillborn child, revived back to life by blowing smoke up her butt and placing her in bed with another woman, recovered completely, and was pardoned.
P1gbL TIL female platypuses don't have nipples, instead, they concentrate milk around the stomach and feed their young by sweating it out
R7054 TIL about Witold Pilecki, a polish intelligence agent in WW2 who volunteered to join a resistance operation to infiltrate a Nazi Death Camp and gather intelligence about the Nazi's crimes and inform Western Allies. Then, after two and a half years, he chose to escape. The camp was Auschwitz.
GML5 TIL that in the 1960s, Wham-O made a “giant” Super Ball, roughly the size of a bowling ball, and dropped it from a 23rd story window as a promotional stunt. It destroyed a parked car on the second bounce.