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TIL in 1963 Soviet Engineers Detonated a Nuclear bomb to Put Out a Gas Well Fire

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OoM04 TIL The hallucinogen found in "magic mushrooms" triggers brain activity patterns that are similar to those seen when someone is dreaming
VWPm TIL that Nintendo owns the rights to a pornographic film called Super Hornio Brothers.
0wlGy TIL that in 1910, black sailors of the Brazilian navy mutinied and gained control of all of Brazil's large battleships. They then used the threat of bombarding Rio de Janeiro to successfully force the abolition of the slavery-like conditions they suffered under in the navy.
VMQQ4 TIL that unpaid moderators were able to successfully sue AOL for $15mil, legally they were considered employees
oRwBo TIL in 2010, McAfee deployed a defective update to their corporate customers that took critical devices offline and required manual work to remediate. Founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, George Kurtz, was CTO of McAfee at the time.