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TIL that TV stations in Montana and Michigan were hacked in 2013 to broadcast bogus emergency alerts about zombies. The Montana alert said "the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living." The Michigan stations said the hacks were traced to "an overseas source."

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R7yL9 TIL that author Jack Kerouac was briefly a construction worker involved in building The Pentagon. According to his biographer, he would bring a pint of "gin or whiskey" to work every day.
wLLD8 TIL Sean Astin (Bob Newby, Superhero and Sam Gamgee) is the adopted son of John Astin (Gomez Addams)
x9dB TIL there’s a real life Russian ghost ship floating around in the Atlantic ocean named the Lyubov Orlova
epB8J TIL Much of old Lisbon is prefabricated. Following the destruction of the 1755 earthquake these Pombaline buildings (named after the first Marquês de Pombal) are four story wooden framed structures made in parts elsewhere and ensembled into blocks on an exact grid.
OoAOg TIL In a study of the mental health of students, higher levels of prayer were associated with better mental health as measured by lower psychoticism scores. However, in Catholic schools, higher levels of prayer were also associated with higher neuroticism scores.