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TIL that in 1984, English grandmother Jane Snowball ordered groceries with her TV remote, sending it through her phone line to her local store. She was the first person ever to shop online.

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nWJr7 TIL that in 1901, New York became the first U.S. state to require license plates. Each car owner was expected to create their own, so plates varied widely in materials (usually metal, wood or leather), style and color.
GAPWQ TIL Via Transilvanica hiking trail in Romania is probably the longest outdoor art exhibition in the world. The path is 1400km long and for each kilometer there is an andesite stone bollard marking the trail, each one hand-sculpted with a unique design.
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VBNl0 TIL in Rocky (1976), when the fight poster shows Rocky in the wrong color shorts, that was not intentional. The art department messed up, showing red with a white stripe instead of white with a red stripe. The budget was only around a million dollars, so they had Rocky point it out in the film.