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TIL Uber paid hackers $100,000 to cover up a data breach affecting 57 million customers and drivers

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XEAlr TIL that the prize for the Val d’Isere downhill ski competition in 2005 was a cow, the organizers intended to trade the cow for a $5000, but olympian Lindsey Vonn declined and kept the cow, it was later found to be worth $20000.
4nyR TIL Stephen Fry claims the UK record for saying ‘fuck’ on television most times in one live broadcast.
j0Jv TIL that in 2004, farmers in India used Pepsi and Coca Cola instead of pesticides because they were cheaper and got the job done just as well.
1QwW TIL Pocahontas is arguably the only Disney Princess to have dumped another character, and is definitely the only Disney Princess to have dumped the same character twice.
yQrgv TIL that in 1999 Homer Simpson was voted in a BBC News Online Poll as the 5th Greatest Star of Stage or Screen of the last 1000 years, beating Robert De Niro (6th) and Marylin Monroe (9th).