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TIL Ubisoft fixed their game by using a cracked executable made by the warez group Reloaded to pirate their game. The signature of the Reloaded group was still in the patch when it was cracked open.

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RXEw TIL that people who spend money to buy themselves more free time are happier.
dAnr TIL the first time Trey Parker used auto-tune, he had to deliberately sing off-key. “You had to be a bad singer in order for that thing to actually sound the way it does.”
GYaM7 TIL the inability to recognise faces is called Prosopagnosia (face blindness).
b6LK7 TIL in 2010, after 90 years of publication, Canadian magazine "The Beaver" changed its name to "Canada's History" because the modern slang definition for "beaver" resulted in their promotional emails being sent to the spam folder.
5pGP TIL The Army is looking to build ammo that is biodegradable and also contains seeds. Instead of training grounds being polluted with metal slugs, these grounds will grow flowers which will consume help biodegradable the munitions.