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TIL, in 1986, a sysadmin looking into a $0.75 accounting error uncovered a KGB hacker that was stealing nuclear secrets

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N7x9M TIL that when Danes living under Prussian rule was banned from flying the Danish flag, they bred a special red pig, with white stripes resembling Dannebrog, as a protest.
N7K61 TIL that Catherine Zeta-Jones was initially offered the lead role in Chicago, but turned it down in favor of playing Velma just so she could sing "All That Jazz."
a8w4b TIL one American Indian was memorialized by a different tribe who created a pile of rocks in the shape of a turtle for his bravery while running severely wounded to warn of an impending battle
4dQJ TIL Yawning is not contagious for children with Autism due to the inattention to facial cues rather than lack of empathy.
9YPrp TIL that natural history museums use teams of beetles to clean the flesh off specimens.