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TIL the first ever balloon pilots were a rooster, a sheep and a duck

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oLj7 TIL that the International Space Station has been connected to the regular terrestrial Internet since January 22, 2010 when the first unassisted tweet was posted
4Rro TIL 15 Years ago today, Fernando Tatis made history as the only MLB Player to ever hit 2 Grand Slams in the same inning.
mxNpY TIL that lose yourself was the first rap song to ever win an Oscar, but Eminem didn't think it would win so he never attended the award show and watched cartoons with his daughter
dDR9Q TIL that the United States and Spain fought a mock battle in the Philippines in order to prevent Filipinos from taking the city of Manila. The two countries managed to lose a total of 68 soldiers in the fake battle.
OoX5e Today I learned that the term used in RFID gen2 standard is "tags" and "Interrogators"