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TIL a 12-year-old was awarded $3,000 for finding couple of bugs in Mozilla codebase

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gAVD TIL: That on 9/11, after the first plane hit the North Tower of the WTC, people in the South Tower wanted to leave but were advised by a announcement to stay at their desks. Some of those who tried to leave anyway were turned back by security in the building before the exits. 1,120 died.
GYkQ7 TIL there is an Amish town called Intercourse in PA, USA
6EKLZ TIL about the Burakumin (部落民, "hamlet people"/"village people", "those who live in hamlets/villages"), an outcast group at the bottom of the traditional Japanese social order that has historically been the victim of severe discrimination and ostracism.
vd54 TIL that men get piss all over everything because of Plateau-Rayleigh instability - not necessarily because our aim is off
ANmVB TIL an ChatGPT detected an X user's urgent health crisis: 'If I had arrived 30 mins later, I would have lost an organ.'