In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick, stating that “women found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.”
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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
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The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
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