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TIL At the age of 14, Tom Anderson (a.k.a. MySpace Tom) cracked the security of Chase Manhattan Bank and caused one of the biggest FBI raids in California history, but wasn’t arrested due to his young age.

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oBNVA TIL that Trey Parker and Matt Stone lost the Oscar for Best Song to Phil Collins in 1999. As a result they brutally satirized him in the episode “Timmy 2000.” They have him sing a parody of “You’ll Be In My Heart,” get booed off stage, and then had his Oscar shoved up his ass.
ne5lW TIL the first commercial fax service, between Lyon and Paris France in 1865, by Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli, was created 11 years before the invention of the telephone.
xV6O1 TIL according to North Korea unicorns exist and there is a grave near a temple in Pyongyang
jN8DM TIL That there's a mysterious rare polio-like illness paralyzing little children. Its cause is unknown, and there is no treatment or cure. It spikes in cases every other year.
lordV TIL That More Than A Year Before Him And Dylan Klebold Murdered 13 People At Columbine High School, There Was A Warrant Drafted To Search Eric Harris's Home Because Of Death Threats He Made To Another Student. It Was Never Submitted To A Judge