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TIL the first message on the internet was “lo” (as in, “lo and behold”) sent on October 29, 1969

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EgEa7 TIL how one of just two XB-70 supersonic bomber prototypes was lost during a 1966 photo-op for GE
0aaj TIL that the photographer who took Abraham Lincoln’s photo on the $5 bill is better known for inventing a pump-action folding shotgun.
4X4Og TIL "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam", an underground cartoon short depicting Mickey Mouse being killed during the Vietnam War, was directed by Whitney Lee Savage, father of the Mythbuster Adam Savage.
8bY8 TIL for Superman (1978), Christopher Reeve refused to wear fake muscles under the suit and took an intense two-month training regimen supervised by David Prowse who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars films.
v0p8 TIL The site where Julius Caesar was assassinated by the Roman senate in 44 BC is now a no-kill shelter for homeless cats