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TIL that in 1899 the last surviving native Tasmanian recorded a song, the only record of her vanished language

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BrYGx TIL In 2017, Tesla’s “Mothership” network was hacked by a white hat. The vulnerability was proven to the Tesla head of cyber security by summoning a nearby Tesla while he was on the phone with the hacker. The hacker was paid $50k as bug bounty reward.
b6JPa TIL there are at least 40,000 native speakers of Ladin as of 2011, a written and spoken language in the Dolomite Mountains with similarities to Romansh (in Switzerland) and Friulian (in Italy). A standard form was developed for use in the whole Ladin-speaking region and is used on traffic signs
j6yNj TIL that Babe Ruth constantly cheated on his wives during his baseball career. A detective that the New York Yankees hired to follow him one night in Chicago reported that Ruth had been with six women. Another player said that he was not Ruth's roommate while traveling; "I room with his suitcase".
Ye4Z TIL A 3500 year old Egyptian temple dedicated to Montu - God of strength and war - was disassembled in the 19th century to build a sugar factory
xVdKk TIL in World War I, California’s schoolchildren were enlisted in a war on squirrels with one-sided casualties exceeding 100,000 ground squirrels