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TIL that in the early days of reddit, founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman created fake accounts to submit content. Admins had the ability to create new users and posts simultaneously to give the site the appearance of having an established community, until reddit could stand on its own.

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jNjXj RemoveDebris, a small experimental satellite designed to clean up space debris successfully snared its first piece of extraterrestrial pollution — a solar system premiere. Did you know that more than 7,600 tonnes of so-called "space junk" floats around Earth — the result of nearly 60 years of space exploration — with some moving faster than a speeding bullet at approximately 48,000 kilometres per hour (30,000 miles per hour).
R7Lpw TIL in 2009, a 14-year-old boy showed up at a Chicago police station in uniform and worked 5 hours of a shift. He allegedly got a police radio, ticket book and rode with an officer for several hours before his identity was realised. He knew procedure due to a "police explorer" program he’d gone to.
W7LlB TIL of the Edict of Expulsion, when King Edward I of England gave all Jews in the country a few months to leave.
wLwl8 TIL that the Finnish in WWII had a battle cry (Tulta Munille!) Which translates to ‘Fire at their balls!’
MWem TIL that during the Great Depression women made clothes out of flour sacks and when manufacturers learned of this they started using patterned fabrics and designed the label to wash out.