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TIL China's surveillance is named SKYNET

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pNjQ TIL the story of Teddy Roosevelt sparing a bear cub is a myth, he just didn’t want to kill it himself because it was bad sport. The bear’s neck was cut open and they ate its paws that night for dinner with possum.
YVLd TIL that the author of the first computer worm ever created was a student and it infected 6000 computers which was 10% of all computers connected to internet.
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WkN18 TIL During the Beijing Olympics, a 9-year-old girl who sang a patriotic song at the opening ceremony, was revealed to be a fake lip-syncing. The real singer was a 7-year-old girl who was kept backstage, because she was considered not good looking enough and that might’ve damaged China’s image.