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TIL A Dutch Police Force Is Training Eagles To Combat Drones

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5YMLP TIL using two spaces after a period is absolutely wrong.
LkAx0 TIL of Long-time Nuclear Waste Warning Messages. It's intended to deter any human intrusion in nuclear waste repositories 10000+ years in the future, and warn them in a way that's understandable to that civilization
PYg7Z TIL There's a zip file titled '42.zip'. It's known as a zip bomb or 'zip of death' because it's original size is only 42 kilobytes. But when it's uncompressed, it expands to 4.5 petabytes (4,500,000 gigabytes), crashing the antivirus program and then the system.
R54KQ TIL that 96% of Mali's exports is gold
LQLGm TIL that in 2006, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of North Korean web portal Naenara, around 300 users gathered to organize a flash mob. The gathering was dispersed immediately, and all online chatrooms in North Korea were banned as a result.