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TIL About the Mimic Octopus, a creature capable of replicating the shape and movement at least 18 other different creatures.

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ONYa TIL 1983 blockbuster WarGames (Matthew Broderick) caused President Reagan to ask national security officials if this type of “hacking” was possible; Gen. Vessey replied “The problem is much worse than you think.” This influenced national security policy, ARPAnet, & ultimately the modern Internet
j6pRN TIL a Liverpool fan committed suicide halfway through the Champions League final when Liverpool were trailing 0-3 just to comeback to 3-3 and beat AC Milan in penalties
jNd9p TIL Mexico’s presidential palace is 14 times larger than the White House and opened its doors to visitors for the first time in 2018
ANAgo TIL one possible origin to the idiom, "shake a leg", meaning to 'get going' or 'hurry it up' came after battles during the Civil War. Stretcher-bearers would violently jostle a leg or arm to elicit a response from victims on the field to determine if he were alive or dead.
e0LP5 TIL in 1963 the US Atomic Energy Commission considered the possibility of excavating an alternate rout to the Suez Canal by blasting a path across Israel using 520 two-megaton nuclear bombs. Intended to be sea level with no locks, the greatest depth of excavation required would 1500 feet.