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TIL the first call ever made on a cell phone, was from an engineer named Martin Cooper calling a rival engineer to brag about his accomplishment.

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6Jy7 TIL that in Japan, rōnin (the term for a masterless samurai) also nowadays refers to someone who is unemployed
kORGg TIL Neither the FBI or New York recorded the 9/11 attack in the crime statisitcs report for 2001. They claimed this single event would skew the entire crime statistics program and therefor could not be counted as deaths in New York.
OGedg TIL in 1967, a documentary filmmaker was shot and killed while filming a miner in Kentucky by the owner of the rented house where the miner lived. The killing was motivated by the growing resentment of journalists who descended upon Appalachia to document living conditions during the War on Poverty.
E9YX TIL the founder of “Pretty Good Privacy” encryption got around USA’s munition export laws by printing the entire code as a book and claiming 1st amendment rights
Zp8XY TIL that it takes about 50 minutes to soft-boil and 90-120 minutes to hard-boil an ostrich egg.