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TIL, Ending today in 2025, AOL still ran a dial-up internet service in the US with 300,000 people only having a dial up connection.

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VMax4 TIL about James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' was cartoonist in New Yorker who got injured on one eye in childhood and lost vision from the other eye too. But he started seeing hallucinations and it is believed, they were the source of most of his illustrations.
GAGp1 TIL that the fear of long words is names hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
wxp7 TIL that André The Giant had an operation in 1987 in which his size made it impossible for the anesthesiologist to estimate a dosage via standard methods; consequently, his alcohol tolerance (“it usually takes two liters of vodka just to make me feel warm inside”) was used as a guideline instead.
W7JVY TIL a person called Andreas Mihavec holds the record of surviving the longest without any food or liquids. He was forgotten in a basement jail cell in Austria in 1979.
p8RMQ TIL that an astronauts space suit costs roughly $12,000,000 USD.