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TIL Apple left a known iTunes vulnerability unpatched for 3 years, it was used by governments against dissidents and to snoop on users.

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loQYN TIL Gordie Howe played 32 seasons of professional hockey in a career that spanned 5 decades
kDa4 TIL of the Taxil Hoax, where a Frenchman spent 12 years as a Roman Catholic writing anti-Masonic accounts, only to reveal it was a prank on the Church. As he said “…I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human stupidity”
5VKV8 TIL about Saint Guinefort, a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint.
O8g TIL That Facebook owns hundreds of Domain names, including faceboo.com, fb.com, and IHateTheFacebookLikeButton.com
1PD4 TIL fabric softeners carry a warning not to use them on children’s sleepwear but despite this, smiling happy babies feature heavily in its packaging and promotion.