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TIL free, open-source tool called Reaver exploits a security hole in wireless routers and can crack most routers’ current passwords with relative ease.

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kOWde TIL that Sammy Byrd is the only person to have played in a World Series of baseball and competed in golf's Masters Tournament.
5YdKR TIL that for the private citizen, there are no penalties for violating the US flag code. And that, "the Flag Code serves as a guide to be followed on a purely voluntary basis to insure proper respect for the flag."
yQ49J TIL Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld killed off George’s fiancé Susan because of her bad chemistry with Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
LkO0p TIL Aloha Wanderwell was the first woman to drive around the world, befriended Chinese bandits, captured the first footage of the Bororo tribe, and disguised herself as a man to pray in Mecca.
MeQOA TIL monkeys can learn to use money. Capuchins that were taught to exchange silver discs for treats began budgeting for foods they liked, buying more of something when the price dropped, and started gambling. Eventually, rich monkeys even figured out they could pay each other for sex.