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TIL, when he was young Tesla became a gambling addict, lost all his tuition money, dropped out of school and suffered a nervous breakdown

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9wJYD TIL in 1900 British representative Frederick Hodgson demanded to sit on the sacred Golden Stool of the Ashanti people which led to an uprising that ended with 3,000 casualties on both sides and annexation of the Ashanti Empire, which had resisted encroachment for decades.
N77V6 TIL McDonald's Original Grimace Mascot Terrified Kids as a Four-Handed Totem for Gluttony
yQAVe TIL that AI agents play hide and seek in a virtual world, continuously learning, adapting and improving.
WkW4Y TIL about "foldering", a covert communications technique using emails saved as drafts in an account accessed by multiple people, and poses an extra challenge to detect because the messages are never sent. It has been used by Al Qaeda and drug cartels, amongst others.
OlbY TIL Buzz Aldrin punched a conspiracy theorist, Bart Sibrel, in the face for doubting he was on the Moon