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

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wL5KJ Historical photos show fishermen with chinooks almost as tall as they are. A century's worth of dam-building, overfishing, habitat loss and hatcheries has cut the size of the average fish in half.
l7np7 TIL there is scientific evidence that women who experience more heartburn during pregnancy have babies with more hair at birth, and vice versa
R5xBw TIL Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory) competes in the Olympics under their own flag.
rNdZ4 TIL that the con-artist, Frank Abagnale, from Catch Me if You Can, lied about most of the story. His book retelling his "crimes" was the only successful con he ever pulled.
O17L TIL The Rhinoceros Party of Canada was a real political party that advocated for declaring war on Belgium, making the Trans-Canada Highway one-way only, repealing the Law of Gravity, and counting the Thousand Islands to see if the Americans had stolen any.