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TIL of An0m, a device marketed to criminal organizations as super-secure, with its own closed messaging network. It was actually run by law enforcement across multiple countries, who got copies of every communication sent through it.

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nVld TIL People implant magnets in their fingertips to augment their senses and detect electromagnetic fields.
567r TIL that legendary gambler Phil Ivey won over $9 million dollars playing baccarat with the help of a woman named Chen Yin Sun. Sun spent hundreds of hours memorizing flaws in the patterns on the back of the playing cards–aberrations along margins of the card backs, no wider than 1/32 of an inch.
4kZB6 TIL The town of Linlithgow, Scotland features a black hound on its coat of arms based on an old folk tale. Because of that, those born within the town are known as "Black Bitches"
VMayG TIL that the 1992 film "American Me" enraged Mexican gangsters to the extent that numerous people involved with the film were murdered. Danny Trejo claimed 10. Edward Olmos, the director of the film, was also the victim of an extortion plot.
rRBld TIL the original name of Velcro came from the first syllables of the French words velour (meaning velvet) and crochet (meaning hook), although Georges de Mestral first called it 'locking tape'.