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TIL that there’s a huge illegal industry that salvages old shipwrecks that predate nuclear testing to get steel untainted by atmospheric radiation.

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d806r TIL In a 1945 interview with The New York Times, Alexander Fleming, who won a Nobel Prize that year for his discovery of pencillin, warned that misuse of the drug could result in selection for resistant bacteria. True to this prediction, resistance began to emerge within 10 years.
AB77 TIL hacker Samy Kamkar created a Myspace virus, which made anyone that looked at his profile automatically become his Myspace friend. It spread at a rate of 1000 accounts becoming his friend every second, resulting in over 1 million friends. Samy was raided by the Secret Service and got probation.
6g8 TIL that nearly $1 million of Royalties collected from sales of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, sit unused because no one wants the money.
6EXZW TIL Charles Shultz included Franklin, a black child, in his Peanuts comic strip at the height of the civil rights movement. He has since been accused of racism, but that is entirely incorrect. Shultz threatened to quit if his strips with Franklin weren’t run as is.
RaQ6 TIL that Herbert Hoover (as well as JFK) gave his presidential salary to charity.