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TIL in 2016 a group of hackers almost stole $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve, but were discovered when they spelled “foundation” as “fandation” in money request transcripts. They still managed to get away with $81 million.

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xkXB TIL Rabbits can scream
R7K9l TIL that the legendary 1981 film "Das Boot" was shot as if it were a silent film, with all of the dialogue and sound added later, because the cameras and their newly developed gyroscopic stabilizers, used for the submarine interiors, drowned out the dialogue and diegetic sound.
BjML TIL there is a Cyrillic letter so rare it is only used in the phrase “many-eyed Seraphim”
rN90o TIL the longest traffic jam in history lasted for 12 days. It occurred in China in 2010 on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway and stretched for over 62 miles (100km).
neRNY TIL the U.S. was on the verge of drafting women into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in anticipation of the invasion of the Japanese mainland in late 1945 during World War II