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TIL Helter Skelter is a Roller Coaster in Britian

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pYRnG TIL In 2001, an Australian hacker using a laptop and a radio transmitter took control of a local sewage system in Queensland and sent municipal sewage into parks, rivers and public lands. He did this out of revenge against the department that had opposed his hiring request.
be79 TIL chickens were first domesticated not for the purpose of food or egg production but for cock fighting, and in fact it wasn’t until the 20th century that egg and meat production began to be stressed.
16kZX TIL the 2011 PlayStation Network outage, where hackers seized the personal information of 77m users, was partially due to Sony removing Linux support from the PlayStation 3.
QJGyX TIL that the NY Subway has the most stations of any metro system in the world.
aw7GJ TIL days are gradually getting longer; the modern day is longer by about 1.7 milliseconds than a century ago.