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TIL of the Sony rootkit scandal: In 2005, Sony shipped 22,000,000 CDs which, when inserted into a Windows computer, installed unn-removable and highly invasive malware. The software hid from the user, prevented all CDs from being copied, and sent listening history to Sony.

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A87w TIL that the Catholic Church didn’t officially recognize the ideas of Galileo until 1992, more than 20 years after Apollo 11
nARP TIL your body produces 3 highly illegal narcotics (DMT, GHB, and Morphine)
JAGQ TIL the Santa Marie didn’t make to the U.S. because the crew partied too hard and all fell asleep. Only the cabin boy stayed awake to steer, but he crashed the ship into Haiti.
447J TIL lawyers from the Disney corporation denied a couple’s request to engrave Winnie Pooh on the gravestone of their stillborn child without paying royalties.
wKB1 TIL, Al Gore graduated 25th in his class of 51, applied to only one college, Harvard, and was accepted.