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

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Mmba TIL that someone in Colorado is breaking in to homes, Stealing snacks namely Hot pockets and watching animes. He steals no cash or valuables only snacks.
YpjlW TIL that radiation from the Chernobyl disaster contaminated farms over 2,000 miles away in North Wales.
wLJW6 TIL of Vasilisa Kozhina, a Russian woman who lead a guerilla regiment of women and teenagers to slaughter "hundreds of the French" in the Patriotic War of 1812. She has two streets, a village and a train station named after her, plus a stamp and a mention in War and Peace.
Lk9Ep TIL that George Gershwin was in psychoanalytic therapy for several years for “aberrant” behavior, olfactory hallucinations, loss of coordination while eating, and severe headaches, and it wasn’t until he died that they figured out he had a brain tumor.
BrXGy TIL the equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).