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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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4oKb TIL Cat meat is believed to boost one’s health during the winter months in traditional Chinese medicine. Cat eating is mostly limited with Guangdong province, where local restaurants are supplied by a nationwide network of catnappers who snatch up strays and deliver them by rail.
8pVZ TIL on a British Airways flight en route to Spain the windshield blew out, sucking the captain halfway out. Flight attendants suffered frostbite and other injuries to hold onto his legs while the copilot landed the plane– with no loss of life.
8aVMa TIL of William Colepaugh, who upon being discharged from the US naval reserve defected to Nazi Germany in 1944. Trained as a spy, he was landed ashore at Gulf of Maine by an U boat. He voluntarily surrendered after partying with the money meant for espionage activities.
XmZ8 TIL Japanese Diplomat Chiune Sugihara and wife Yukiko stayed up handwriting thousands of Visas for entering Japan to Jews in Lithuania as Nazis neared, saving 6,000 lives while disobeying bosses’ orders to do it
4XrJw TIL Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg suffered from a severe fear of the number 13. He predicted correctly that he would die when he was 76, because 7+6=13. He did die on July 13th, 13 minutes before midnight