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

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QJdaE 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.
JYJZ4 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.”
NMm1 TIL that in Norway, income and wealth are public record, easily viewable online
6ElZX TIL that Kobe Bryant is the only person to have won both an Olympic Medal and an Oscar
Bro8L TIL Kodak had a nuclear reactor, weapon's grade uranium and were notified about American nuclear tests in advance during the cold war