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TIL OJ Simpson’s father was a gay drag queen who died of AIDS

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KGaG TIL mathematician Zachary Harris hacked into Google’s email system and sent a e-mail phishing attack to Larry Page from Sergey Brin’s e-mail account. All because he noticed a flaw in an e-mail sent from Google offering him a job and thought it was a test. It wasn’t.
7yZ7 TIL there is a Christian cult in China that tortures former members for leaving and killed a woman for refusing to join
wmmY TIL that in Moscow, stray dogs have learned to commute from the suburbs to the city, scavenge for food, then catch the train home in the evening.
OGJg7 TIL the highest point above Earth’s center is not Everest. It’s Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador. This is because the earth is not a perfect sphere, but rather oblong shaped. The earth is fatter in the middle from centrifugal forces during its constant rotation.
yvNJ TIL that the Big Ben is the name of the largest of the five bells which hang within the clock and not the name of the landmark clock.