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TIL: About the "Wow! Signal" which appeared to come from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius and bore the expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin.

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WkgB4 TIL that in a 2017 criminal case, the US government put the secrecy of its hacking tools above all else. Prosecutors chose to drop all charges in a case of child exploitation on the dark web rather than reveal the technological means they used to locate the anonymized Tor user.
kVyd TIL Ashton Kutcher tried steve jobs diet when getting into character for the JOBS movie and ended up in the Hospital because it messed up is pancreas levels… Steve jobs died of Pancreatic Cancer
1r0P TIL Batman and Robin rescued a cow that would later become Bat Cow, an awesome superhero.
PPZZ TIL that to unintentionally mimic the accent of someone they are talking to, if they have a different accent, is a normal human trait. Psychologists believe it comes from an inbuilt urge to empathise and affiliate with the person you are talking to.
B9lb TIL that two researchers, funded by the British government, developed a mathematical formula for the “perfect human voice.” The male voices that matched most closely were Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons; the closest matching female voices were Judi Dench, Mariella Frostrup, and Honor Blackman.