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TIL police departments have fake mobile towers, often called a “Stingray”. These devices act as a fake cell tower, which tricks nearby phones into connecting to it and feeding data to the police.

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5Ep TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only US president to take on a full grown cougar with only a knife.
rRmve TIL of a woman who has won the Lottery four times since 1993. She was outed as a PhD of Statistics from Standford University and had figured out the pseudo-number generator for the distribution of the winning tickets. She won a total of $17million, and has since moved to Las Vegas.
gMKy8 TIL porn is banned in South Korea. You face up to 2 years in prison if you distribute.
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