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TIL that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) is the PREQUEL to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and not the sequel.

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OOQa TIL in 2011 researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois developed a way to hack into voting machines and modify votes from up to half a mile away. They showed that this could be done using $26 worth of electronics and an 8th-grade science education.
e0mk4 TIL that in the early days of home computers, late 70's to early 80's, computer magazines featured code listings that readers would spend hours typing into their computer in order to play a game or have a certain program.
gJE7 TIL that the Chinese Massacre of 1871 is quite possibly the worst mass lynching in US History. Nearly 1/10 of the entire population of LA at the time laid siege to Chinatown and approximately 15-20 Chinese Americans were lynched.
e0gg6 TIL the Cavalry Commander in Wellington's Army lost his leg at Waterloo.As it was being amputated, he smiled and said "I have had a pretty long run. I have been a beau these 47 years and it would not be fair to cut the young men out any longer".His amputated leg became a popular tourist attraction.
v5Ox TIL Most of the developed world uses Chip and PIN credit cards, except for the U.S. which uses Swipe and Sign which is far less secure