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TIL that in 2013, someone hacked the Emergency Alert System in Montana. They sent out an alert that the “dead bodies are rising from their graves and attacking the living.” Several people believed it and called 911.

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9wY1p Today I learned about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory in psychology often depicted as a pyramid. They are physiological (food and clothing), safety (job security), love and belonging needs (friendship), esteem, and self-actualization.
R5ag7 TIL that between 1760 and 1860, college riots included Harvard's "Great Butter Rebellion" of 1766, which got the entire sophomore class expelled (some, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, were allowed to return). In Yale riots between 1843 and 1858, students stabbed or shot tutors and firefighters.
j6J7j TIL that US military pilots were not allowed parachutes in World War I because it was believed they would be too quick to abandon their planes at the first sign of danger.
AKLw TIL that Noshir Gowadia, one of the lead engineers for the B-2 stealth bomber, is serving a 32 year prison sentence for selling classified information to the Chinese Government (in particular cruise-missile and jet related stealth technology).
KYAPJ TIL that Edith Piaf was named after Edith Cavell, a British nurse in WW1 Belgium, who saved the lives of soldiers on both sides and helped 200 Allied men escape German-occupied Belgium before being shot by the Germans for treason, and who is now included in the Church of England Calendar of Saints.