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TIL most receipts use toxic ink that gets absorbed through skin contact

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8aAgP TIL Less than a year before Ernest Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun, he became paranoid and thought the FBI was following him. It later turned out that head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, had, in fact, gotten an agent to watch Hemingway in Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s.
D1N7j TIL of Buckshot Yankee, the worst cyber attack in US military history. In 2008, an employee found a USB drive in the parking lot of a DoD facility and plugged into his work computer. It took 14 months to purge from DoD networks.
ADZ9a TIL Physicists at Washington State University created 'negative mass' where unlike every known physical object in the world, it doesn't accelerate in the direction it was pushed. It accelerates backwards.
YpDZA TIL Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Amélie, was deeply opposed to the musical adaption of his movie, but eventually sold the rights of the film for the piece to donate money to the Mecenat Chirurgie Cardiaque (Cardiac Surgery Patronage), which sponsors operations for needy children around the world
X1EP TIL A man raised his arm for 38 years without EVER putting it down.