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TIL of the Hand Angels, a Taiwanese NGO whose main service is giving hand jobs to the severely disabled.

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5VOBD TIL The very distinctive black and white pattern of Killer Whales (Orcas) serves as a form of camouflage from their prey. Like military airplanes that are colored light on the undersides and dark on top, this color pattern makes the whales less visible from both above and below.
yVyRM TIL that Anne Ramsey, best known for her role in Throw Mama From The Train (1987), her slurred speech was due to operations for her throat cancer and was in pain during the whole production. She was nominated for an Oscar. Sadly she died of her throat cancer 6 months after the ceremony.
newEG TIL about Nicolas Antoine, who attempted to convert to Judaism in the 1620s and then became a Calvinist pastor in the Canton of Geneva while secretly practising the Jewish worship. He ended up being burned at the stake for heresy on 1632
mwGp TIL in 1998, a group of hackers – identified only by their “hacker names”, including “Kingpin”, “Mudge”, and “Space Rogue” – testified before a U.S. Senate committee. They described how they could take make the internet “unusable for the entire nation” with “just a few packets”.
neZ8b TIL: Before the year 2000 problem, caused by storing only 2 digits for the year, there was the year 1970 problem because only one digit was stored for years from 1960 to 1969