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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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aloL TIL: Fiji Water once ran an ad campaign stating “The label says Fiji because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. The city of Cleaveland responded by testing both Fiji water and their own tap water. They found 6.3 micrograms of arsenic in Fiji water, and none in their own.
PY4pg TIL of water puppetry where puppets on water are used to tell popular stories or folktales. It originated in 11th century east Asia in the flooded rice fields
0ld1 TIL in Togo the natives call the castoff clothes they receive from America “Dead White Men Clothing” because a living person would not throw away anything this good.
d8mGE TIL the word "algorithm" has its roots in the name of the Persian mathematician of al-Khwarizmi. The word "algebra" is derived from the Latinization of "al-jabr", part of the title of his most famous book. He also oversaw the translation of major Greek and Indian mathematical and astronomical texts.
PWnn TIL of a saltwater lake that was cut off from the ocean and is completely filled with jellyfish. As natural predators have been sealed off from the lake, the jellyfish have harmless stingers due to evolutionary regression. Swimming in the lake is safe and permitted.