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TIL that the world’s oldest blockchain runs in the New York Times (pg 16 today BTW)

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mN6R TIL in 2006 the FBI convicted a crime family using evidence collected by remotely enabling the microphone on a cellphone. This is called a “roving bug.”
4Ly6 TIL A South African IT company preferred to use a pigeon to transport a 4GB flash drive over 80 km (50 mi) instead of using the country’s biggest ISP’s ADSL. Including downloading, it took two hours for the data to arrive, the same amount of time it took to tranfer 4% of the data over the ADSL.
g7R9 TIL that Food Babe once claimed that microwave ovens cause water molecules to form crystals that resemble crystals exposed to negative thoughts or beliefs.
W7Xoo TIL that at the first appearance of basketball in the Olympics in 1936 (in Germany), it was played outdoors on lawn and dirt tennis courts. The final was held in a downpour which made it so muddy they couldn't dribble. Final score was 19-8 USA over Canada, top scorer had 8 points.
0wMML TIL that Dred Scott and William Tecumseh Sherman are buried in the same cemetery located in St. Louis, Missouri.