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TIL in 2008 Russian hackers managed to infiltrate a computer network that wasn’t even connected to the internet. Bugged USB drives were planted in a kiosk outside NATO headquarters in the hope that a NATO employee would happen to buy one and use it on their classified network, which they did.

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awYQo TIL that the moaning sounds in Guns N' Roses' "Rocket queen" were recorded in the studio, where the singer, Axl Rose, had sex with Adriana Smith
rNXao TIL A study found that more years of education is correlated with higher life satisfaction, better health, and lower divorce rates even when controlling for income.
loXW1 TIL Germany finally finished paying off debts from reparations required in the post-WWI Treaty of Versailles in 2010 - 92 years after the end of the war.
ZpYlG TIL the Denton House is a historic building in New Hyde Park, New York that was built in 1795 as a farmhouse and converted to a Georgian-style mansion in the 1860s and is currently a McDonald's restaurant.
P10eL TIL about Elizabeth Miller, a war photographer who took photos in Hitler's bath and Eva Braun's bed