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TIL that Chinese Checkers was invented in Germany

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J9Zm TIL Federal prosecutors built a hacking case against a John Kane, a man who raked in half a million dollars exploiting a minor glitch in a video poker machine. Kane’s lawyer said, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” They won
epd1D TIL I learned that The Gambia uses marbles instead of paper ballots for elections
dDNPB TIL that although Slide Mountain is widely accepted to be the tallest mountain in the Catskills range in New York, its exact height has never been formally measured.
gMV6b TIL Mozilla, maker of Firefox, has a list of 50,000 most common passwords of which can't be used when setting up a Firefox account
7rdKM TIL "Mad" Mike Hughes died after crashing in his homemade steam powered rocket. He launched from the California desert and hoped to reach the Kármán Line, where Earth's atmosphere meets outer space 62 miles above the ground to prove that the Earth is a flat disk and not a sphere.