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TIL that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was expelled from the University of Colorado Boulder in his first year for hacking the university's computer system and sending prank messages through it.

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R5Bg8 TIL that in world war 2, English soldiers would use passwords that had sounds that the language of the people they where fighting against did not have, so that they could tell if an unidentified person was an enemy soldier tying to infiltrate them by if they said these sounds correctly.
XEwek TIL of Richard Rich, a Catholic who supported, under Henry VIII, the destruction of monasteries and execution of monks. He gave testimony obtained through promises of friendship to execute clergy and personally tortured a Protestant woman. He is seen as one of the worst people in English history.
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