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TIL that marketing firm Exactis leaked over 340 million records of personal information on public unprotected servers (data including but not limited to age and gender of children, addresses, pets, smoking habits, etc) and this breach affects nearly every single American.

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MZjb TIL That there is a village in Austria named Fucking where the road signs were frequently stolen by English-speaking tourists. The mayor said that tourists, and the money they bring to the area, were welcome, but locals were sick of replacing the Fucking signs.
v1x9r TIL When Time magazine named China's Deng Xiaoping as 1985 Man of the Year, it prompted Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-Kuo to quicken the pace of Taiwan's democratization. Deng invited Chiang to meet with him but he declined, on the grounds that he did not believe in the Communist Party of China
E17ow TIL: about the strange case of Bella the unidentified woman found dead inside a hollow tree in WW2. No one has ever been charged with her murder and no one is sure who she was although rumours speculated that she was a spy, she was killed by witches and that she was a a missing prostitute.
p8wBe TIL Your body can’t actually detect oxygen. When you hold you breath and feel the need to breathe, that is your body trying to get rid of carbon dioxide. (4:05 in video)
0wdBL TIL Nikita Khrushchev travelled to the US, fell in love with corn and Iowans, and sought to bring it back to the USSR and outproduce the US