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TIL: A hacker broke into people's routers and patched them so they couldn't be abused by other hackers.

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v1o8 TIL There is a german beer that won the right in court to be called Fucking Hell. “…much to the irritation of the Austrian village of Fucking.”
6EBYQ TIL former Chicago Blackhawks goalie Sam LoPresti once killed a dolphin with basically a shiv, to feed 28 of his shipmates who were stranded on a lifeboat for 42 days, after a German torpedo took out their ship. They cooked the meat in a bucket full of kerosene soaked rags. Hockey players, man...
v1d64 TIL: William Talman was the first Hollywood actor to to film an anti-smoking public service announcement. He had lung cancer when he filmed the commercial. The short film began with the words: "Before I die, I want to do what I can to leave a world free of cancer for my six children"
X0vVr TIL Canada's original gothic Parliament Building, including the Victoria Tower, was destroyed by fire in 1916. Only the Library survived intact, by an employee who closed the iron doors connecting the Library to the rest of the building
X04yD TIL that the actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, was banned from attending official Star Wars events because he leaked too many plot details.