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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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gM6lD TIL Oliver Sipple was former US marine who thwarted an assassination attempt on President Ford was outed as gay by Harvey Milk, despite his request to keep his sexuality private. As a result, Sipple was disowned by his family and eventually drank himself to death.
l7Nwr TIL that "Macgyver" started off as "Hourglass," a show that was to take place in real time over an hour. However, since each episode was supposed to stand by itself, its creator thought that they couldn't make it work as a series. The same concept was later used to make "24."
Me5b TIL there was a “lost” tribe of Pintupi Aboriginals who first saw a white person in 1984. At their first meeting, the white man invited them into a Toyota and went for a joyride in the desert while listening to Australian rock band Midnight Oil.
BraMk TIL a company in Maine was sued for $10 million because they did not use an Oxford Comma in their workers’ contracts
Oo4va TIL Enya is a recluse who lives in a mansion with her cats and makes music with an elderly couple, the lyrics to which she sometimes sings in Sindarin and Quenya - elven languages JRR Tolkien invented for Lord of the Rings.