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Today I learned the first internet router called IMP 1 was the size of a phonebooth.

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b6mZa TIL In the biblical story of Peter, Jesus did not rename the man called Simon/Simeon with the name Peter. He called him "rock". Petra is just the Latin/Greek version of the word "rock". It was later anglicized to "Peter"
ElDp TIL the average person in 1900 would have been “intellectually disabled” by modern IQ norms
1aOk7 TIL that in 1942 a dental surgeon from Pennsylvania USA wrote to the White House suggesting the use of incendiary bombs attached to bats, what ensued was $2 million dollars in research and a burnt down Air Force base.
VMLkD TIL Mary Jane Rathbun, better known as Brownie Mary became known for illegally baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDs patients in the 1980s. She was baking more than 4000 brownies per week. She was also known for wearing polyester pants suits and having a 'sailors mouth'.
ZpwnQ TIL that Karl Silberbauer, the Nazi police officer who raided and arrested Anne Frank and her family, bought her diary to see if he was mentioned in the book.