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TIL David Bowie, a tech visionary, launched his own internet service provider called BowieNet in 1998, offering users exclusive content, email addresses, and even web hosting

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5VKQ9 TIL of the Japanese phrase "kuchisabishii" - when you're not hungry, but you eat because your mouth is lonely
QJkeE TIL that one of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier‘s famous quotes is “The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship” and after her husband John F Kennedy was assassinated she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis who is valued at $2.3 billion today
loMG1 TIL Neil Armstrong's astronaut application arrived a week past the deadline. A friend slipped the tardy form in with the others.
JOLB TIL that a high school football coach got half the fans of his own team to cheer for the other team, because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and didn’t have any fans of their own.
bNd9 TIL dolphins have been recorded having conversations in which they alter volume and frequency of pulsed clicks to form individual “words” which they string together into sentences in much the same way that humans speak. Each dolphin would listen to a sentence without interruption before replying.