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TIL Frank Lloyd Wright's mistress and employees were hacked to death with an axe at their "Love Cottage"

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v1XG4 TIL approximately once every 18 months (on average) a total solar eclipse is visible from some place on the Earth’s surface
YZDx TIL: Complex 8 character passwords aren’t that secure. A password of “B!gt1t$^” would take approx 3 days to crack, but “reddit is for nerds” would take 204 TRILLION years to crack.
bxK4 TIL that in Persian rug making, a deliberate mistake is always placed in the rug because ‘to weave a perfect rug or carpet would be an offence to Allah’
m1GQp TIL California was mistakenly depicted as an island on maps for nearly 150 years. This error, due to a Spanish friar's mistake in 1603 and spread by Dutch pirates, persisted until 1747 when King Ferdinand VI of Spain had to officially decree "California is not an island" to finally debunk the myth.
PdLO TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.