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TIL Canada sterilized indigenous school girls till the mid 1990s

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rN9gy TIL about one of the most crucial cybersecurity attacks in history, the SolarWinds hack. The attack, which was discovered in December 2020, compromised the networks of numerous government agencies including the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Treasury Department.
4kNko TIL In Japan, Real Estate Properties Are Always Depreciating Assets Similar to How Vehicles Are
j6VYN TIL that John Tyler, the 10th U.S. President still has a living grandson, Harrison Tyler who is 94 yrs old.
v0WK TIL that the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, a satirical, federally registered political party in Canada, received 1.01% of the popular vote in the 1980 federal election campaigning to repeal the law of gravity and provide higher education by building taller schools, among other promises.
Z81OB TIL about Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the world in 1960, which took 60 days and 21 hours to complete. They generally followed the same path used by Ferdinand Magellan in the first circumnavigation of the world in 1519.