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TIL: LaserDiscs were first marketed and sold in 1978 — and they were originally called DiscoVision! 🪩🕺🏼

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QJXXX TIL: Armin T. Wegner who resisted both the Armenian Genocide & the Holocaust. In 1915, he took hundreds of photos of the persecuted Armenians and was subsequently arrested. In 1933, he wrote a letter to Hitler denouncing the persecution of Jews, and was then sent to a concentration camp.
oB7gW TIL a passenger on a Southwest flight from Atlanta to Houston fell ill in mid flight. His wife called out for a doctor, and 20 doctors who were returning from a conference stood up and helped the man until the plane landed.
Z8DRp TIL War pigs were used by the romans because their squeals scared the war elephants into fleeing and trampling their own armies.
woGYY TIL that NORTHERN Ireland is almost exactly the same size as Connecticut.
jNajn TIL that women are far more likely to kill people they know, and to do so by the stereotypical techniques (for women, at least) of poisoning and asphyxiation.