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TIL the Barbie doll is based off of a high-end prostitute.
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TIL that long before DDOS or spam-mail attacks there was the infamous "Black Fax". Senders would attack the receiver with completely black pages to occupy their fax machine and making them use up all their expensive ink/toner and paper.
VbaZ
TIL during WWII, Dutch railroad workers went on strike to undermine the German war effort. In response the Germans blocked food supplies to the country, resulting in a famine that killed over 20,000
wLY88
TIL of the 13 languages attested from before 1000BC, only two (Ancient Chinese and Mycenaean Greek) have descendants which continue to be spoken to this day
KOLL4
TIL when filming the original Willy Wonka, producers struggled teaching August Gloop how to pronounce “Fudge” which sounded more like “Vag”. Hear his pronunciation around 14.10.
5ELR
TIL ants can combine multiple colonies into “Supercolonies” which contain multiple queens. One of the largest on record included an estimated 306 million worker ants and one million queen ants living in 45,000 interconnected nests.