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TIL of Daniel Sickles. He shot the son of Francis Scott Key in broad daylight for sleeping with his wife, and was the first person acquitted under the insanity defense. Later he was appointed a Union general, and lost his leg disobeying orders. He regularly claimed to be 6 years younger than he was.
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TIL The biological father of Martin Gore, founding member of Depeche Mode and its musical driving force, and key figure in the New Wave, Synth Pop, and Alternative Dance music genres, is African American. Gore himself only learned when he turned 30 and has since visited him in the American south.
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TIL in 2009, Benjamin Moody cracked the signing key to a TI-83+ calculator in 73 days on a 1.9 GHz dual-core processor, allowing users to flash their own OS. In 1999 same algorithm required a Cray supercomputer and 8000 MIPS-years of computing time to factorize a similar 512-bit key.
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