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TIL in 2011 a 75-year-old woman digging for copper cut off internet to all of Armenia

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4kBew TIL the first repeating firearm ever used in a war was the kalthoff repeater during the 1658 Siege of Copenhagen, it boasted a magazine of up to 30 rounds and a rate of fire of up to 1 round per second.
gN9L TIL that the blue Power Ranger Billy Cranston got his surname from the actor Bryan Cranston who had voiced several monsters on the show earlier in his career.
1aXMr TIL of Betty Ong, a flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11. Ong notified the American Airlines ground crew of the hijacking, staying on the telephone for 25 minutes and relaying vital information that eventually led to the closing of airspace by the FAA for the first time in history.
1aO0r TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges.
78WDr TIL that Barabbas, the man the Bible claims was chosen to be spared from crucifixion over Jesus, is said in early writings to have also had the first name Jesus, with Barabbas meaning Son of (Bar) the father (Abba).