Post * loJpV — Curious Curator

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TIL that using his knowledge of telephone systems, Kevin Poulsen, alias “Dark Dante,” hacked the phone lines of a radio station to become the winning caller for a brand new Porsche. He was sentenced to 5 years and banned from using computers for years. Later he reinvented himself as a journalist.

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E1RZ7 TIL the cast of Top Gear was once violently attacked by an angry mob because the locals were offended by the license plate on one of their cars.

R7Qn9 TIL - The military did a study and found that 90% of more than 100 over the counter and prescription drugs were perfectly good to use after 15 years in storage.

Z8agD TIL that in 2016, after 168 years of searches the infamous lost ship "Terror" was ultimately found in Terror Bay, which was named after the ship in 1910 - half a century after its disappearance. For a long time, Canada refused to look for a ship there despite numerous statements by the local tribes

4XLWg TIL in 1939 Russian minister Vyacheslav Molotov claimed bombing missions over Finland as humanitarian food deliveries for their starvng neighbours. The Finns dubbed them "Molotov bread baskets". When the firebomb was developed, the Finns called it "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food"

Lk47r TIL that the American public found out about the existence of the atomic bomb only sixteen hours after the bombing of Hiroshima.