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TIL Kevin Mitnick, the most famous computer hacker in the world, spent 8 months of a 5 year prison sentence in solitary confinement because law enforcement convinced a judge he had the ability to "start a nuclear war ... by dialing into the NORAD modem via payphone and whistling codes"

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Brxyd TIL about the Lost Colony of Roanoke, the first attempt at British settlement of North America. The leader of the colony left for England for supplies and returned to find all 120 colonists and their buildings had vanished. The only clue was the word ‘CROATOAN’ carved into a tree.
a80lM TIL that Doritos were made in Disneyland due to stale tortillas being thrown in the garbage
x6Kxk TIL 59% of 18-25 year olds in the United States are overweight or obese
5v09 TIL that a carrot farmer trying to cut back food waste (over half of carrots produced are too ugly for grocery shelves) carved & created the first batch of ‘baby carrots’ using a green bean cutter. 30 years later, these carrots account for 70 percent of all carrot sales
xVVk0 TIL “Foghorn Bradley” was the name of the first umpire to call a perfect game in MLB history.