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TIL of former Congressman Leo Ryan (D), who was assassinated in the events leading up to the Jonestown Massacare

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dvZZ TIL: Gobekli Tepe archaeological site is older than Pyramids, and even older than Stonehenge, writing, agriculture, discovery of wheel. Also oldest religious place ever discovered.
neD7Y TIL That Mae West, the Pre-Code Queen, got arrested multiple times for obscenity, even having her play “Drag” taken off Broadway for having homosexual content. She went on to become one of the most famous film stars of the 1930s, being the originator of the phrase “Come up and see me sometime.”
WBjX TIL That Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla created one of the world’s first wireless remote controls, unveiled at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1898
KYkBa TIL EA Games holds 30+ patents to accessibility technology in video games with the promise to not enforce them and to keep them available to the public
mxKao TIL an optical disc called Holographic Versatile Disc was developed that can store up to 6TB of data but never appeared in the market.