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TIL That when Thomas Edison made one of the first movie cameras in 1891, he then filmed the first cat video in 1894.

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PNwJ TIL cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched into space as a Soviet citizen, but returned to earth as a Russian citizen - he was in orbit when the Soviet Union dissolved on December 26, 1991.
WkRwB TIL that Charles Darwin once found two ground beetles and grabbed one in each hand before seeing a "sacred" crucifix beetle (Panagaeus cruxmajor). Afraid to lose it, he put one of the beetles he had between his teeth to grab the crucifix but the beetle spit acid down his throat and he lost them all.
8aR4G TIL In 1929 hockey player Eddie Shore, after missing his train, drove 350 miles through a blizzard to a game. The car's chains broke twice, the wipers broke, he removed the top half of the windshield, and crashed into a ditch. He still made it and scored the game's only goal.
wo6OY TIL: There is currently someone in jail for 50 years in Thailand for insulting the king on social media. Thailand still has Lèse-majesté laws from 1908, which is the strictest defamation law in the world. Even insulting the King's pet or attempting to insult the King leads to decades of jail.
MvdK TIL the FCC Received Over 13,000 Complaints about Comcast’s Data Caps within Months of Rolling Out