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TIL a Melbourne woman posted a photo on Facebook of a "creep" she claimed was taking photos of her children in a shopping centre, and it was shared thousands of times. The man had actually taken a selfie at a Star Wars store display set up for people to take selfies

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Zp0v4 TIL of Steganography, a field similar to cryptography, but that involves concealing a message rather than encoding it. For example, hiding an image in audio, or even hiding one image in the data of another. A famous example, a POW in Vietnam blinked TORTURE in morse code during a newscast.