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TIL, in 1893, the Dole Food Company, overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii, setting up a provincial government

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ADwvo TIL Joseph Kennedy threatened to sue ABC for revealing that his son John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer-prize winning book Profiles in Courage was ghost-written. They retracted the story. The book wasn't considered for the prize until Joe convinced a boardmember to persuade others to vote for it.
8aYpL TIL about Jon Postel, a researcher who in 1998 hijacked the internet to prove a point about it's poor security. Instead of being reprimanded he was appointed to run ICANN, the authority now responsible for overseeing domain naming and ensuring the internet's ongoing stability.
O974 TIL the European Space Agency and EU are currently deploying an alternative to GPS, called “Galileo”. As well as being accurate to 1 meter, it will also have a “Search and Rescue Service”, where distress signals can be picked up from anywhere on Earth. The full system will be completed by 2019.
R7LL7 TIL there are more people who have learned English as a second language than there are native speakers.
6EQwl TIL of the F-11 Tiger, which during flight tests managed to shoot itself down with 20mm rounds fired from his own cannon