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TIL that S&H Green Stamps are still a thing
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TIL that in Summer Olympics a tie for first (and thus multiple gold medals) has occurred 26+ times
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TIL John Hughes chose to live in Chicago (where all his movies were set) rather than Hollywood or NYC because he preferred living among normal folks. "[In LA], you spend too much time with other people in the business and you trade ideas back and forth and it all sort of comes out looking the same."
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TIL that the first gunpowder weapon was actually a melee spear with a one shot flamethrower attached called a fire lance used by the Chinese around year 1000.
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TIL of Buckshot Yankee, the worst cyber attack in US military history. In 2008, an employee found a USB drive in the parking lot of a DoD facility and plugged into his work computer. It took 14 months to purge from DoD networks.
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TIL Sharon Stone for may years maintained that she had an IQ of 148 and was a member of Mensa. She finally admitted in 2002 that she was not, and had never been a member of Mensa.