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TIL 600 000 hacking attempts are made every day to hack Facebook accounts.

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E4KV TIL Francis Marion, the basis for Mel Gibson’s character in ‘The Patriot’, had, “A reputation as a racist who hunted Indians for sport and regularly raped his female slaves” as described by famed Historian Christopher Hibbert.
VBg44 TIL about the French astronomer (with the longest name I have ever seen) who twice travelled to India to observe the transit of Venus. He returned to a family that presumed him dead and was fighting over his estate.
v15A7 TIL the water chestnut is not a nut at all, but an aquatic vegetable
W8wN TIL Joseph Stalin ordered the development of a half man half ape, the creature would be resilient to to pain beyond a normal man and would not care about the quality of food given. When Stalins top scientist failed to do so, he had him executed.
WkyK8 TIL no alarms went off on the day of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion because they'd been disabled to spare workers from being woken up by false alarms.