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TIL that a 15-year-old Canadian executed the first major DDoS crippling popular websites likes Yahoo!, CNN, eBay, Dell and Amazon to show the world how easily a kid can knockout websites, was sentenced to 8 mos juvenile detenction and was FORCED to donate $250 to charity.

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kr97 TIL The US overthrew a democratic government in Guatemala, in favor of the dictator Jorqe Ubico, because the United Fruit Company was an American owned company and they didn’t want to pay for the taxes or the import duties on bananas.
lomYV TIL between 1979 and 1989 Mat, one of the characters of the Czechoslovak TV show Pat & Mat, had his shirt color switched from red to grey because censors thought that the main characters wearing red and yellow shirts was a jab at the Soviet-Chinese relations.
OoJ0e TIL that when Alexander the Great’s dearest friend Hephaestion died, Alexander threw him a lavish funeral worth around £1,500,000,000. He also had a 60-metre-high pyre commissioned, with 7 layers of golden objects. Hephaestion was also worshipped as a divine hero. Shrines were erected in his memory.
negnY TIL about the Christmas Truce, an unofficial cease-fire that happened on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day during WW1 in 1914. Both sides stopped fighting and held celebrations, even giving gifts to each other.
bjMN TIL That Popcorn when air popped is actually healthy. A single cup contains more anti oxidants than most of the vegetables people eat in a day as well as vitamins B, A, E, and K and iron, potassium and zinc.