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TIL the first real-world Bitcoin transaction was 10,000 BTC for 2 pizzas. In today’s value, 10,000 BTC is worth $57 million USD.

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BRbk TIL that Harvard College is suspected of grade inflation. The median grade is an A-, and the most frequently awarded mark is an A.
gMjgW TIL in 1954, when the Swanson TV dinner was first sold in retail outlets, it was controversial: men wrote to the company complaining that they preferred their wives cook from scratch like their mothers did as opposed to the "just heat and serve" meal.
DQLag TIL that the first major league in baseball formed in 1876 and was called the National League and included 8 teams.
X0EvR TIL that of the 24 Franklin Counties in the United States, Franklin County, Idaho, is the only one that is not named after Benjamin Franklin; it is named after Franklin D. Richards, an Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
rNEY1 TIL there was a massive horsemeat scandal in Europe 10 years ago