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6nrX TIL: Oslo, Norway. Has donated a Christmas tree every year to the United Kingdom since the 1940’s. The tree is usually cut down in November and held up at Trafalgar Square throughout the Christmas holiday.
5YZBR TIL that the first black woman to travel to space was Mae Jemison, who was a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992. She later appeared on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", making her the first person to have been on Star Trek and in space IRL.
Q7bd TIL the first spam email and the first DoS attack occurred on the same day. A law firm sent a spam message over the early web, and annoyed recipients flooded them with angry responses, crashing their computer.
XEBZD TIL of the 'Battle of Brisbane' (1942), a standoff between American soldiers and Australian citizens leading to one death and hundreds of injured on both sides. The reports were censored to preserve wartime morale.
XbOj TIL Mark Twain hated Jane Austen with a passion, saying, “Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”.