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TIL of an undercover operation in 2020 where a group of white hat hackers discovered a security vulnerability and preemptively stole $10mil USD worth of the cryptocurrency Ethereum before anyone else could, stored the funds somewhere else, and then returned all of the funds to their original owners.

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v0X8 TIL When Sati was prohibited in India. Charles Napier told protesting Hindu priests “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property…”
Zp71Q TIL Isaac Newton Was Deeply Religious. He Is Generally Considered An Anti-Trinitarian Monotheist By Historians, And Was Considered To Be A Heretic Due To His Belief That Worshipping Jesus As God Was Unholy. He Also Made Numerous Studies Of The Bible, Which Supported The Doctrine Of Immanence.
BrrOx "Glenn Gould was a complicated man. He didn't like to practice; instead, he'd prepare for concerts mentally, running the piece over and over, playing with imaginary fingers. When he was a little baby, it was said that instead of crying, he would hum. He had perfect pitch and could read music before he could read words."
1awyV TIL - When Coca Cola Launched Dasani Water In The UK Their Slogan Was ‘Bottled Spunk’ & 'Can’t Live Without Spunk’; Oblivious That In The UK Spunks Means Semen.
gMGOW TIL Qatar has more Indians living there (650,000) than actual native Qatari citizens (300,000)