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TIL Seattle, WA is home to the world's first gas station, which opened in 1907.

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Z8oKv TIL Veerys can predict how bad a hurricane season will be more accurately than meteorological models. And they can do it months in advance.
WnP8 TIL pharmacists in France have been trained in mycology, so foragers take the mushrooms they have gathered to their pharmacist where, free of charge, the mushrooms are checked for toxicity.
N7vkM TIL about the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable microcomputer. Released in 1981, it weighed nearly 25 pounds, had to be plugged into the wall and cost $1,795 (or roughly $5,000 in today's dollars).
b694 TIL that, as a way to reinvent himself upon enrolling at Northwestern University, Stephen Colbert began pronouncing his last name with a silent t.
Qp76 TIL that John Dee, a courtier and spy of Queen Elizabeth I, would sign his name as “007” when sending coded messages back to her.