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TIL the world's first cyber-attack happened during the 1790s. The Blanc brothers intercepted the first (mechanical) national data network to get market's information quicker.

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j69xQ TIL America and France fought an undeclared naval “Quasi-War” from 1798-1801, during which the Logan Act was passed into law, prohibiting diplomatic negotiations between a foreign power and private American citizens.
rmEM TIL After 9/11 the Clear Channel memorandum listed “lyrically questionable” songs that shouldn’t be played on the radio. The only band to have all of their songs on the list was Rage Against the Machine.
v1aGB TIL Brad Pitt was paid a single cup of coffee for his Deadpool 2 cameo. Ryan Reynolds thought it would be funny to cast a high profile actor for a character that is invisible and worthless throughout the movie and then show up for eight frames of footage.
aAYJ TIL that in 1901 a doctor named Duncan MacDougall tried to prove the existence of the human soul. To do so he measured the weight of a person at the moment of death. He had 6 patients all of which experienced weight loss with the average loss of weight being 21 grams.
9wY1p Today I learned about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory in psychology often depicted as a pyramid. They are physiological (food and clothing), safety (job security), love and belonging needs (friendship), esteem, and self-actualization.