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TIL the first e-commerce was a drugs deal in the early 1970s

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6ExDX TIL Winston Churchill was in New York on Black Friday, the crash of 1929, having invested (and lost) the royalties for a book he was writing. He wrote, "I expected to see pandemonium, but the spectacle that met my eyes was one of surprising calm and orderliness."
wokA6 TIL Hitler's dad originally went by the name Alois Schicklgruber before changing his last name to 'Hitler' in 1876
pY5l8 TIL Glass fiber dresses were a fad for a few years in the 1890s, and the NYT even predicted they’d be more popular
ZpXjD TIL that long before we started saying 'LOL' on the internet, the Dutch have been using 'lol' to mean fun since the Middle Ages - and it's just a wild coincidence
yQNDa TIL In the mid-1970s, a lawyer from Akron, Ohio, wrote the Cleveland Browns football team with a complaint about paper airplanes being tossed around the Stadium. The Browns replied with a letter saying "I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters"