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TIL the first "bug bounty program" that rewards users for reporting software bugs was in 1983. The reward was an actual VW Bug.

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yQBrp TIL In 1925 the reporter and public relations executive Dorish Fleischman was the first married woman to be issued a United States passport in her maiden name. Also she was the first woman to report on a boxing match while working for the New York Tribune in the 1910s.
ADpm4 TIL that although 20 US Presidents served in the military and most of them during war time, only President Kennedy was awarded a Purple Heart.
LkZ7P TIL of Diego, a giant tortoise who helped "un-endanger" his species by having tons of sex. He & E5 (another male) brought the population from 16 to 2,000, and now the species is considered self-sufficient. Diego, after living in captivity for 90 years, is now retired at home in the Galápagos
W7Jm9 TIL In 1944 the Japanese Cruiser IJN Tone sunk a British freighter and took 108 survivors onboard, against orders. Admiral Sakonju ordered the prisoners be 'disposed of' and 76 were taken out to sea and Beheaded. Sakonju was hung for war crimes in 1948.
oR1yr TIL that the world’s largest kidney stone, removed from a patient in Sri Lanka, weighed 1.67 lbs (757.5g) and broke 2 world records.