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TIL the first e-commerce was a drugs deal in the early 1970s
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TIL Timothy McVeigh was a witness to the Waco massacre in 1993. Two years later, on the second anniversary of the last day of the Waco siege, McVeigh set off a bomb outside of a government building in Oklahoma, as an act against what he saw as a tyrannical government.
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TIL Waldo, an african grey parrot, is the lead singer of a death metal band called Hatebeak. It is the first band to feature an avian vocalist, and doesn't tour/play live because it would be "absolute torture for the bird to experience decibels at those levels.”
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TIL that in Norway, income and wealth are public record, easily viewable online
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TIL that Kobe Bryant is the only person to have won both an Olympic Medal and an Oscar
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TIL Kodak had a nuclear reactor, weapon's grade uranium and were notified about American nuclear tests in advance during the cold war