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TIL the entire internet can be shut down by a group of 7-14 cybersecurity experts — the group was created by ICANN to protect people from global internet security issues.

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grWb TIL Finnish WWII sniper Simo Häyhä, who killed 505 Soviet soldiers in less than 100 days, didn’t even use a telescopic sight.
nrrW TIL Texas keeps a database of the lasts words of everyone executed on death row
KYgm4 TIL Bob Ballard, who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, wants to repaint it aid its preservation.
jnwa TIL Concerned about the number of cobras in Delhi, British colonial officials created a bounty, only to discover secret cobra farms created to collect the bounty. When the officials shut down the program the farms released their snakes, meaning they had far more cobras than before they started.
eQlE TIL Steven Spielberg directed a TV horror movie in 1972 called Something Evil - about a family in a Pennsylvania farmhouse inhabited by demons - that has never been released on home video.