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TIL a group of hackers managed to hack into a casinos' database of high rollers through the IoT enabled thermostat in the casinos' fish tank.

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p8k18 TIL In India, about 1,500 varieties of mangos are grown including 1,000 commercial varieties. Each of the main varieties of mango has an unique taste and flavor.
W98Y TIL: A city in England got rid of all it’s traffic lights and said that “Drivers will now be expected to use a combination of common sense and courtesy to negotiate the junction of the town’s High Street"
WkpYL TIL in high school, Chance the Rapper got a 10-day suspension for smoking weed. So he went to the library, which had a recording studio for teens, and started making a rap album. This became the mixtape that launched his career, aptly called "#10day"
W7NVo TIL that Elysia marginata sea slugs steal chloroplasts from the algae they eat in order to photosynthesize, and can regrow their entire leaf-shaped bodies after decapitation.
OKm1 TIL that the Velcro fastener was invented when a Swiss man named George de Mestral went for a walk in the woods and wondered if the burrs that clung to his trousers (and dog) could be turned into something useful. The answer, as we all know today, was yes.