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TIL the first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana. In 1971 or 1972, students at Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory used ARPANET—the earliest iteration of the Internet—to arrange a marijuana deal with their counterparts at the MIT

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oRKGA TIL that the nomenclature for multiples of a thousand is different in the U.S. vs. the U.K. and the French. For example, a thousand times a thousand is a million in both. Times a thousand again becomes, in the U.S., a billion, whereas in the U.K. it becomes a thousand million, or milliard.
kvZ5 TIL Thomas Silverstein has been in solitary confinement for ~29 years, which is longer than any other prisoner in the Bureau of Prisons.
p8WrZ TIL that billionaire Warren Buffett still lives in the house he bought before he was rich, and still eats breakfast at McDonalds almost everyday.
YpbxG TIL that Def Leppard's drummer Rick Allen's left arm was amputated in 1984 after he was involved in a car crash. He continues to play with one arm and was named one of the top 10 drummers of all time by Gigwise.
yPoJ TIL More West Point graduates have been presidents of foreign countries than the United States