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TIL: Solid blocks of gutta percha have been washing up on European beaches since 2012. The most likely source is from the Miyazaki Maru, a Japanese ocean liner that was sunk during WWI by the same U-boat captain who sunk the Lusitania.

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vdJB TIL that the hacker Kevin Mitnick was kept in solitary confinement for 8 months because “law enforcement told the judge that he could somehow dial into the NORAD modem via a payphone from prison and communicate with the modem by whistling to launch nuclear missiles.”
AN6d TIL the world’s most translated book by a living author was written in two weeks.
yQ5Yp TIL The CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Artists and Had a Secret Abstract Art Collection
jWZn TIL that the muscular fish found frequently in Spongebob is actually supposed to be a goldfish…and is named Frank.
GAWX7 TIL about D-VHS or Digital VHS, a 50 GB VHS cassette tape capable of recording high-definition video. Released in 1998 in an attempt to save the VHS format, D-VHS was more bulky and expensive than DVDs and hard disks and failed to make headway into the video market.