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TIL: 75% of IKEA’s product images are not photographs

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VMJG8 TIL that TV stations in Montana and Michigan were hacked in 2013 to broadcast bogus emergency alerts about zombies. The Montana alert said "the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living." The Michigan stations said the hacks were traced to "an overseas source."
gDN4 TIL according to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.
rb44 TIL that Winston Churchill entered the UK Parliament in 1900 as a Conservative. He defected to the Liberal Party in 1904 but returned to the Conservatives in 1924, saying “Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat.”
R7kV4 TIL that on his travels through the Arctic, naturalist George Steller described a mysterious creature known as the Danish Sea Ape. While this has since perplexed scientists, evidence indicates that he was not describing an animal, but rather subtly mocking the ship's Danish captain, who he despised.
vnmD TIL that, to make sure people pronounced his name correctly, Senator William Spong proposed a bill to protect the rights of songwriters in Hong Kong. He would be joined in this effort by Senator Long, and Senator Fong, and together they would present the Long Fong Spong Hong Kong Song Bill.