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QNbne TIL that the first recorded use of "OMG" was in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill from Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher - decades before texting existed.
16K8V TIL that in Victorian England, post-mortem photography was a common way to memorialise loved ones - dead children were often posed to look alive, with painted-on eyes or blushed cheeks, and families would gather for their first and only portrait with the deceased.
X0948 TIL that Archimedes supposedly invented a giant lens that focused the power of the sun to burn enemy Greek ships