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TIL: Someone hacked into a cable broadcast in Chicago in 1987 wearing a “Max Headroom” mask. Over 30 years later, the hacker still hasn’t been identified.

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K9aE TIL in 1943 the Nazis made a propoganda film about the Titanic showing the British as cowards and the Germans as brave. The hero is a German officer who saves third-class passengers and the villan is a British owner of the ship who recklessly crashes the boat while trying to break a speed record.
e0XyE TIL About Stu Ungar, one of only two to win the World Series of Poker Main Event 3 times. He burned his way through several fortunes, threw away a 10-year-long marriage, drugged himself up to the eyeballs and, by the end, could barely stand up. He died with only $800.
Lk7JZ TIL that China created execution vans to make executions more efficient.
1aVvP TIL there is giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.
p8WnG TIL that Anna Bågenholm, who had one of the lowest survived body temperatures ever recorded in a human at 56.7 °F, avoided permanent brain damage because her brain was so cold when her heart stopped that her brain cells needed very little oxygen. Thus, her brain survived for a prolonged time.