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TIL Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'

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lMPa TIL there is an underwater island that Sicilian divers have planted a flag in for when it breaches the surface.
wLZlW TIL the 2012 Red Dawn remake was shot with the invading militia originally being Chinese, but was digitally altered in post-production to North Korea.
699vQ TIL: The Post-World War II hyperinflation of Hungary held the record for the most extreme monthly inflation rate ever – 41.9 quadrillion percent (4.19 × 1016%; 41,900,000,000,000,000%) for July 1946, amounting to prices doubling every 15.3 hours.
EN7d TIL There is a database dedicated to tracking every bomb ever dropped by the United States. So far the Theater History of Operations Reports (THOR) details nearly 15 million bombing missions ranging from WWI to Vietnam.
b6LOQ TIL of Banjawarn Station, which is a 4000 square km sheep station in western Australia In 1993, it was purchased by the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult, allegedly for mining operations. On the May 28th 1993,a large fireball and seismic disturbance was spotted from just south of the site by sensors.