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TIL the computer virus that infected Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2010 was set to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” at full volume at midnight.

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YpWBd TIL officially recognised as a religion, & originally started as a mixture of Hindu and Buddhist beliefs, Aum Shinrikyo gradually became a doomsday cult, convinced that World War3 was coming. It became increasingly violent, killing opponents, & killing 12 in a sarin attack on Tokyo underground.
DK1J TIL Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest from a logging company for $14,000,000 for the sole purpose of its preservation.
oBYEY TIL that Hugo Gutmann, a German Jewish army officer recommended Hitler for the award of the Iron Cross. According to the historian Werner Maser, Gutmann received, by Hitler's intervention, a pension from Nazi Germany until the end of the Second World War in Europe, despite losing his citizenship.
vZk8 TIL that when Caesar first set foot on Africa, he tripped over, but saved himself from embarrassment by shouting, “Africa, I have tight hold of you!”
Yp4QW TIL that the blue power ranger of mighty morphin left his role after homophobic harassment by the production crew which almost drove him to suicide