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TIL that using Skype in Ethiopia carries a 15 year maximum jail term

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j59R TIL in the 70s the US tapped an underwater comm line located between two USSR harbors using navy divers deployed from a submarine. Submarines returned with divers every month to retrieve the tapes, and The soviets never found out despite having a network of sonar sensors!
m1p0p TIL that there is a restaurant in Japan where you catch your own fish for them to cook.
MG5a TIL that a Canadian man spent 7 years digging a basement using nothing but scale remote controlled diggers and trucks.
5myR TIL a woman grew up isolated in the Siberian forest, without seeing anybody outside her immediate family until they were discovered in 1978. She remains there still, as the sole surviving family member.
waAJ TIL that a Role Playing Game company (Steve Jackson Games) was raided by the Secret Service partly because they were developing a game about hacking. This was the main influence in the foundation of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a non-profit digital rights group.