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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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Y7JrB TIL that in Ireland in 1985, people across the country claimed to have seen statues of the Virgin Mary and imagery of other holy figures spontaneously moving. The Catholic Church was skeptical and wrote it off as illusions.
pBNb TIL That after the genocide of Tasmanian Aborigines, there are many recorded cases of bodies being claimed for scientific study and museum displays, and one case of a body being exhumed so the scrotum could be used for a tobacco pouch.
XRlD TIL that there was a long-running theory that in the film “Pulp Fiction” you can hear over the radio that Uma Thurman and John Travolta’s characters stole the prized trophy from Jack Rabbit Slim’s instead of winning it…
eplyD TIL when women first started playing basketball in the late 1800s, they wore floor length dresses as was expected during this time. This made it easier to get injured. In 1896, bloomers started to be worn instead.
loY7B TIL: 90% of the plastic in the ocean comes from 10 rivers: The Yangtze, Indus, Yellow, Hai, Nile, Ganges, Pearl, Heilong, Niger, and Mekong rivers