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TIL in 2007 Australia spent $84 million on a porn filter. It was hacked by a 16 year old Melbourne student in about 30 minutes.

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X0O4D TIL of Deli Mike, a Turkish Airlines Airbus A340 notable for her temperamental behavior. Known for “pranking” passengers and crew, she would turn lights on and off and refuse to retract the landing gear seemingly at random. One story went that staff fixed a faulty instrument panel by talking to her.
VMm6Z TIL Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, but he was also a teacher for the deaf
Wk7PB TIL that between 5 and 6 million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar closed, and the entire Mediterranean Sea evaporated within 1000 years, leaving behind a salty desert.
DGvr TIL after musician Jonathan Coulton had his cover of “Baby Got Back” stolen for the TV series Glee, he rereleased his cover with the description “cover of Glee’s cover of my cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s song, which is to say it’s EXACTLY THE SAME as my original version”.
8a55P TIL Hilary Farr, the co-host of the HGTV and W Network television series Love It or List It, was Betty Munroe in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.