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TIL that long before the I phone, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs Earned money by making and selling "blue boxes:" electronic devices that allowed people (phreakers) to make long distance calls without being charged for them by AT&T.
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TIL in 1906 the Bronx Zoo exhibited a Congolese pygmy man named Ota Benga in its Monkey House. The New York Times made light of the outrage at the time calling the “imagined humiliation and degradation” of Ota Benga “absurd” because “pygmies are very low in the human scale”
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TIL about Onfim, a small boy from Novogorod who lived in the 13th century. Some of his writing exercises and drawings have survived on 17 separate pieces of birch bark. He drew horses and knights and messages to his friends. Nothing else is known of his life or his fate.
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TIL the Smithsonian has a set of 670 precise tuning forks covering 16 to 4,096 Hz
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TIL the Harlem Globetrotters had a 8,829 game win streak, ended in 1995 vs Kareem Abdul-Jabbars all star team.