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TIL of John “Captain Crunch” Draper, a phone phreak who used a toy whistle from a Cap'n Crunch cereal box to hack into phone lines

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65e8 TIL that the 2022 World Cup final will be played in Lusail, Qatar, a city that does not exist yet.
Br9ee TIL the Culinary Institute of America was founded by two women, Frances L. Roth and Katherine Angell, in 1946. They created the school to compensate for the shortage of European chefs coming to the US due to WWII. Their goal was to train a new generation of American chefs to fill these roles.
8apRP TIL that beavers hate the sound of running water so much that they will build dams around speakers that are playing the sound of water running over rocks.
BgKNd TIL William Howard Taft, the heaviest ever US President, eventually lost much of his excess weight
rLR4 TIL Jared from Subway ran a business where he’d rent pornography out of his dormroom at Indiana University. The endeavor became so successful that the only place he had time to eat at was the Subway that opened on the 1st floor of the building.