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TIL Scott Fahlman is credited with originating the first ever smiley emoticon, which he thought would help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes. He proposed the use of :-) and :-( for this purpose, and the symbols caught on.

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KOVv6 TIL that the Kearney County Gazette reportedly displayed the skull of 19th-century serial killer Stephen Dee Richards in their window.
Y7EA TIL Jenna Jameson Worked At Disneyland Before Starting Her Porn Career
JWZk TIL middle names became a necessity during the middle ages because there were too many people with the same name and populations had risen exponentially, “The great cities on the planet earth were only a fraction of their size hundreds of years ago.”
mxKoy TIL that Owls actually have long legs and small body that is almost the same size as their Skull.
Z87xa TIL that during the making of “Pulp Fiction,” Vincent Vega’s 1964 Chevelle Malibu, which actually belonged to Tarantino, was stolen during production. In 2013, he was reunited with it when a sheriff spotted two men stripping it in the Oakland area, ran the VIN, and found it belonged to the director.