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TIL of the aptly named "Operation Torpedo" in which the FBI compromised 3 dark web pages by exploiting a flaw in the Tor browser and caught 19 owners of child pornography

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0wDM5 TIL: Hitler considered Islam to be much more compatible with Germany than Christianity
p8pKO TIL that scientists came together in a unique study that observed exactly 1,893 dogs pooping among 37 different breeds of dog, and found that dogs have "magnetoreception". Apparently while they are calm, they poop facing north or south. Quite a few other mammals do this too.
aR9J TIL Vicar’s Close in Wells, England is the oldest purely residential street with its original buildings all surviving intact in Europe.
xlWo TIL Jesse James once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off her debt collector and then robbed the debt collector as the man left the widow’s home.
MedRV TIL Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds. The internet just gives them a “megaphone to announce their opinions.”