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TIL that Vannevar Bush had envisioned the world wide web through his memex concept.

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Rj74 TIL that a steamboat that sank in 1856 was excavated in 1988 under 45 feet of dirt in a field on a farm. Many artifacts were recovered and preserved so well that some of the food was still edible.
kYRW TIL Samoans are some of the tallest people in the world because they practiced eugenics. The tallest warriors were selected as mates.
vyGB TIL that in the 1850s, the Xhosa killed all their cattle and burned all their crops because “the spirits told them to”. ~40,000 people starved to death.
POLZ TIL George Washington almost joined the Royal Navy (British Navy) but his mom talked him out of it.
dw9K TIL: Loki appeared in Marvel Comics roughly 13 years before Thor.