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TIL that the first Amazon.com customer spent $27.95 and got a building named after him

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p84mG TIL Denzel Washington’s character in Training Day was heavily based on real life corrupt cop Rafael Perez, an LAPD officer who pled guilty multiple crimes and is even suspected by some to be the man who murdered the Notorious B.I.G
kMl4 TIL that the ancient Romans used to believe in Emission theory, the idea that visual perception is accomplished by light shining out of your eyes, like the headlights on a car.
jvpj TIL when asked if Bert and Ernie’s characters were gay, Sesame Street President Gary Knell replied “They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. They don’t exist below the waist.”
X0k8E TIL Project A119 : a top-secret project to nuke the Moon
7ryxM TIL the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group found seven previously unacknowledged massacres from 1967 through 1971 in which at least 137 civilians were killed. The harshest sentence was 20 years but the officer served 7 months.