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TIL the first Blue LED wasn't commercially available until 1989 and bright blue LEDs weren't available until 1993.

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edr4 TIL that if you signed up for the Green Bay Packers season ticket waiting list today, you’d have to wait almost 1,000 years to get your tickets.
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PY7oZ TIL that Jesus could have owned a pair of scissors - "The earliest known scissors appeared in Mesopotamia 3,000 to 4,000 years ago".