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TIL in my cyber security class that tracking pizza deliveries to the Pentagon could reveal classified information:0 Apparently a sudden spike in late-night orders usually happens before a military operation or crisis.

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JYg6j TIL that Uber drivers in China changed their profile photos to ghosts and zombie images so that when potential passengers saw these pictures they would cancel the ride they’d just booked, thus earning the driver the cancellation fee.
4kVjb TIL after Hiroshima, the US pledged to destroy all nuclear weapons if one organization was permitted to control all nuclear material and mining operations on Earth under the Baruch Plan
yVrp8 TIL about fire classes (in the USA) which each have specific ways to extinguish them—A (ordinary combustibles), B (flammable liquids/gases), C(electrical fires), D (metals like elemental sodium in water), and K (lipids/fats like kitchen fires).
D1eRJ TIL that when John Hughes changed the ending of Pretty in Pink, OMD had just 24 hours to write a new song that would fit. It ended up being "If You Leave", their biggest hit.
j6NDX TIL about Kosmos 954, a nuclear powered satellite that crashed into northern Canada in 1978, spreading radioactive debris all over the area. An incident that was largely kept from the locals inhabiting the area at the time.