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TIL the 34-year-old owner of In-N-Out Burger (and effectively the US’s youngest female billionaire) has been the target of two attempted kidnappings, and keeps a low public profile as a result

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kjD1 TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web”
1xG7 TIL that while Mother’s Day is the biggest holiday for phone calls, Father’s Day is the busiest for collect calls.
9OoQ TIL after cutting phone lines, snipers attacked a California power station, taking out 17 transformers. They disappeared one minute before the police arrived, never to be caught or identified.
6Exrw TIL That when people first started using the telephone they would often yell into the wrong part, and when they did get on the phone, they had to figure out what to say to start a conversation: “Ahoy” was Alexander Graham Bell’s preferred option.
ADBww TIL: In the 1800s, Mrs Favell Lee Mortimer set out to write an ambitious guide to all the nations on Earth. She had never set foot outside Shropshire. She was horribly misinformed about virtually every topic she turned her attention to. And she was prejudiced against foreigners.