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TIL that it takes us less than 2 minutes today to take as many photos as the whole of humanity took in the 1800s.

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xV8R7 TIL The sponsor, ad agency, producers and most of the people involved in the production of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" thought it was doomed to fail. When it aired on December 9, 1965, half of American TV viewers tuned in.
v1jBx TIL in 1719 prisoners in Paris were offered freedom at the condition they would marry a prostitute and move to Louisiana.
VBg8B TIL When you open your eyes in a prefectly dark room you don't see black, but " eigengrau ", a shafe of grey
OoAY TIL that in 1962, American scientists detonated an H-bomb in space. There was no fireball because there wasn’t any oxygen, but the blast was captured in now unclassified film footage
9r5m TIL Bill Gates once unleashed a swarm of mosquitoes into a crowd at a tech conference. Displaying the need to eradicate malaria, he explained to the crowd “there is no reason only poor people should be infected.”