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TIL Kowloon Walled City existed and is the real world origin for many visual representations of oppressive urbanization in cyberpunk media ( en.wikipedia.org )

I came across a video on Youtube discussing it (there are several), and Kowloon Walled City is just endlessly fascinating. A few notable videos I found on the subject were:...

NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 ( en.wikipedia.org )

Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System! Thanks for 30 years of demonstrating Linux superiority with a gap that widens with every new kernel release 👍

Euthanasia Coaster - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )

hitchBOT - Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness that was decapitated, dismembered, and discarded in Philadelphia ( en.wikipedia.org )

Michael Larson - "Press Your Luck" contestant who won over $100,000 because he was able to notice the flashing lights pattern ( en.wikipedia.org )

Green Boots - a name given to the unidentified body of a climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest. ( en.wikipedia.org )

Green Boots is the name given to the unidentified body of a climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest. The body has not been officially identified, but he is believed to be Tsewang Paljor, an Indian climber who died on Everest in 1996. The term Green Boots originated from the green Koflach...

Unit 731 - Secret Japanese project that carried out human medical experiments during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II ( en.wikipedia.org )

Kai Tak Airport - Major international airport closed in 1998 where planes literally almost crashed constantly due to right-hand turn over the city ( en.wikipedia.org )

Wicked Bible - An infamous bad translation of the Bible to English which includes errors such as encouraging adultery among Christians ( en.wikipedia.org )

Choking game - An internet challenge of intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain to gain temporary loss of consciousness and euphoria. The challenge resulted in the deaths of 82 youths. ( en.wikipedia.org )

Murder of Junko Furuta - The crime has been described as the worst case of juvenile delinquency in post-war Japan. ( en.wikipedia.org )

Dee Dee Blanchard - Mother is murdered and it seems her severely disabled daughter was kidnapped, but things are not always as they appear ( en.wikipedia.org )

Hinterkaifeck murders - The murders are considered one of the most gruesome and puzzling unsolved crimes in German history. ( en.wikipedia.org )

Rat king - A collection of rats whose tails are intertwined and bound together in some way ( en.wikipedia.org )

Zone of Death (Yellowstone) - The part of Yellowstone National Park, where any crime can technically be committed without punishment ( en.wikipedia.org )

Joyce Vincent - An English woman whose death went unnoticed for more than two years. ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL Alice Walton (Walmart heir) killed a pedestrian in a driving accident and was never charged. She has also been arrested for DUI twice but never charged. ( en.wikipedia.org )

The sketchy part is not her not getting convicted. It's that no charges were even filed. I also enjoyed this bit of info from one of the sources regarding the other DUI incident. Prosecutors in Texas have dropped a 2011 drunken driving citation against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton.