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TIL While hacking a Fortune 500 company, 16 year old Sean Parker was unable to log out after his father unplugged and confiscated his keyboard. Because his IP address was exposed, F.B.I. agents tracked him down and arrested him

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O1n1 TIL: During the Third Reich, there was a programme called Lebensborn, where ‘racially pure’ women slept with SS officers in the hopes of producing Aryan children. An estimated 20,000 children were born during 12 years.
yQ0rM TIL when the magazine Auto Bild compared the 3rd generation Skoda Superb and Mercedes-Benz E-Class, both brand-new, the Skoda ended up winning the comparison.
GEpE TIL of Vietnam’s girl abduction problem. Chinese one child policy led to an imbalance as parents preferred boys over girls. There are no girls for the boys to marry and has caused a kidnapping industry where girls are abducted from neighboring vietnam for Chinese boys to marry or for prostitution.
rR7Eo TIL that the final “You’re safe now” scene in Captain Phillips was never in the script but was added on the fly and ad-libbed. The staff of the infirmary were actual crew members of the USS Bainbridge, did not know they were going to be in the movie and just reacted to Hank’s acting.
m1MXE TIL : In 1990 Marion Barry the Mayor of DC, was videotaped during a FBI sting operation at a hotel party smoking crack cocaine. He was arrested and sentenced to federal prison. He was re-elected as mayor in 1994 after his release.