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TIL the first ever text message in history is "Merry Christmas"

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ZJrv TIL Sigourney Weaver made the no-look over the shoulder basketball shot in one take from Alien: Resurrection
X0LOR TIL Dennis Rodman changed his image after seeing Wesley Snipes' portrayal of Simon Phoenix in the 1993 sci-fi action flick Demolition Man.
0wwVy TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
nmkW TIL that two Roman dams in Spain (the Proserpina and Cornalvo dams) are still in use after 1900 years
E1xew TIL the worlds first ever half-hour, completely computer-animated TV series was the Canadian show ReBoot.