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TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web”

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Lk7wQ TIL Covert Narcissits often self-identity as ”Introverts” even tho Introverts are not Covert Narcissits.
pm1G TIL Black women and White men have the second lowest divorce rate in the US.
dOnK TIL in 1974 a Washington lawyer circulated a theory that ‘elites’ had raided all the gold from the United States Bullion Depository in Fort Knox. Members of the media were given access in order refute the theory. It is the only time a member of the public has been allowed inside the vault.
P1Q5Z TIL that 'The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening was a fan of 'Beavis and Butt-head' because "it took the heat off of Bart Simpson being responsible for the downfall of western civilization".
x65Po TIL That primes numbers used in cryptography aren't 100% primes. They are numbers that has a false positive rate of less than one in a million billion billion of not being primes.