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TIL A married Secret Service agent had trouble extraditing a hacker from Romania, so he pretended he was a woman, flirted for 7 months online, and nabbed the criminal when he flew to Boston with 3 boxes of grape-flavored condoms.

grEO4 TIL that in 2014, in Hangu, Pakistan, 14 year old Aitzaz Hasan Bangash saved his high school from a suicide bomber by confronting the man alone. While other students fled into the school for safety and to raise the alarm, Aitzaz held the man at bay until his bomb detonated, ending his life.
x4rw TIL after realizing an aspiring magician was actually in his twenties and had childlike handwriting due to a disability, David Copperfield founded Project Magic. A program that teaches people with disabilities how to do sleight of hand magic in order to enhance motor skills and gain self confidence
PYQ7g TIL that Bruce Springsteen once signed a kid's late note after the kid came to one of his concerts holding a sign saying he's be late to school tomorrow. The note read, “Dear Ms. Jackson, Xabi has been out very late rocking & rolling. Please excuse him if he is tardy.”
v1mL TIL That there is a mysterious pit in Nova Scotia.. Excavation started in 1795 but to this day what is at the bottom of the hole remains a mystery.
Jl6k TIL The Radium Girls were factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The women were told the paint was harmless, and ingested deadly amounts by licking their paintbrushes; some painted their fingernails and teeth with the glowing paint.