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TIL there is video of someone born in the 1700s.

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axRy TIL Chattanooga broadcast legend Luther Masingill is the only announcer to have reported over the air both the attack on Pearl Harbor and the attacks of 9/11.
DQxaj TIL The story of Jeronimus Cornelisz : a litteral sociopath took advantage of a mutiny and a shipwreck in 1629 to establish a brutal dictatorship on a desert island, leading to the murder of 124 surviving men, women and children.
rRO9y TIL: Monty Python's Graham Chapman was bisexual, defining his attraction as "75%/25%, favoring males"
M7Rbm TIL: The "voice" of the GPS is often recorded by a person named Karen Jacobsen. She is an Australian singer and voiceover artist who recorded her voice in 2002 for a text-to-speech system used in over a billion GPS and smartphone devices worldwide.
nWmm9 TIL that a young Beethoven met Mozart. After asking him to play something of his own, Mozart ran to his wife and said, “One day he will give the world something to talk about."