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TIL You Could Download Video Games From the Radio in the 1980s

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nWejB TIL in school I read about Nellie Bly, a female journalist in the late 1800s who got herself committed to an insane asylum to report on the conditions. She also once jumped off a ferry so she could report on the efficiency of the rescue crew!
Rvna TIL no one knows what Jesus looked like; “The artistic depictions down the ages have total and complete variation, which indicates that nobody did a portrait of Jesus or wrote down a description, it’s all been forgotten.”
Z89Ap TIL women taking on their husband's surname began in the 9th century when women did not have legal identity and therefore took on the husband's name to be legally covered by his identity.
rJ6e TIL dogs can understand that when we look at them and then stare at something, they should turn their attention to it.
ep59k TIL of the Great Raft - a log jam that was over 175 miles in length. It was so massive it led to the formation of several lakes in Louisiana, shaped hundreds of miles of farmland around it, and took 5 years for the Corp of Engineers to clear in the 1830s.