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TIL the first Minnesota Twins mascot was named Twinkie and only lasted two years.

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PYnrg TIL that the first thing that was ever bought and sold over the internet was weed. In 1971 or 1972, Stanford students using Arpanet accounts at Stanford's AI Laboratory engaged in a commercial transaction with their counterparts at MIT, and thus the first act of e-commerce was a pot deal.
R7EXl TIL there is a village called “Miracle Village” situated in Pahokee Florida that is only inhabited by registered sex offenders.
6EEVw TIL Muon Tomography used to find a new chamber in the Gaza Pyramid was also used by Toshiba and the US Los Alamos Nat. Lab. to assess the situation inside the damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi
j6rjE TIL Ubisoft offered to share their detailed 3D model of Notre Dame from Assassin's Creed: Unity, some 5,000 hours of research, with the French government reconstruction effort after the fire in 2019.
N7mNJ TIL learned is not a typo, it is the american spelling for learnt