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TIL Cuba has an illegal underground network of computers mimicking the internet essentially making it the worlds largest LAN party

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1a1dd TIL of the "May Incident" during WW2 Congressman Andrew J. May revealed highly confidential information that US submarines were surviving Japanese depth charges because they were exploding at a too shallow depth. This leak later led to the deaths of 800 crewmen and 10 submarines
9O9D TIL When Bill Gates first showed off Windows 98’s ability to use Universal Serial Bus (USB) to connect a scanner while the computer was still running, something revolutionary at the time, the computer crashed.He joked, “That’s why we’re not shipping it yet.”
VBdvp TIL Rob Riggle, comedy actor known for roles such as 21 Jump Street, was a Marine reservist who was activated to be part of the first search and rescue crews at Ground Zero immediately after the attack on 9/11.
j6X6n TIL that UK used to do "virginity tests" at their airports on women coming from South Asian countries, these exams used to also occur on women at British High Commissions in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. In 2021 this procedure was officially made illegal and criminalized in England and Wales
Zp5pQ TIL 17th century England had twerking ("Moulding Cockle Bread" dancing) and moral panics about twerking.