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TIL that The Drew Carey Show was the first TV show to have an episode simulcast on the Internet

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G0V1 TIL of a man named James Howells who threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoin. The hard drive, currently under mountains of trash in a wales landfill is worth approximately $15 million.
N7G71 TIL that Alec Baldwin is a direct descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland, and thus is a 14-generation American.
M7Xom TIL about the Bajau people, a sea fairing Austronesian group who have evolved bigger spleens, letting them store more haemoglobin-rich blood, which is expelled into the bloodstream when the spleen contracts at depth. They also intentionally rupture their eardrums.
BjML TIL there is a Cyrillic letter so rare it is only used in the phrase “many-eyed Seraphim”
PYMDO TIL Fritz Bauer, a jew and Germany's first post-war Federal Attorney was essential in building up a democratic Germany. He prosecuted former nazis but got threats from his own work colleagues and his superiors. He was found dead in 1968 and cremated immediately without autopsy against court orders.