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TIL prescription data is sold to drug companies to target doctors who are not selling their products

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D1N7j TIL of Buckshot Yankee, the worst cyber attack in US military history. In 2008, an employee found a USB drive in the parking lot of a DoD facility and plugged into his work computer. It took 14 months to purge from DoD networks.
QJRyk TIL, a bank teller refused to cash Charlize Theron's check when she first came to Hollywood; so she engaged in a shouting match with him. A talent agent, waiting behind her, handed her his business card and subsequently introduced her to casting agents. She made her film debut several months later.
XEjvE TIL the private railroad car was invented for a tour by Swedish soprano Jenny Lind in the United States
g8KD TIL that some dogs that fail seeing-eye school go to work as bomb-sniffers for the ATF
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