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TIL When you dream, one part of your brain is making up the story, and another part is experiencing those events and is genuinely surprised by all the twists in the plot.

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Egr1x TIL: In 1986, one of the first computer hacks was uncovered when a systems administrator at Lawrence Berkeley Labs was trying to track down 75 cents or 9 seconds of unaccounted for server time. Cliff Stoll now runs a business selling klein bottles.
gXaX TIL In 1935 German engineers created a streamlined motorcycle with the engine in the front wheel. There was likely only one made and it’s current location is unknown.
eNgn TIL the oldest person to have ever lived met Vincent Van Gogh and called him “dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable” and “very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick”
Br7Od TIL that English used to have a letter for "th", called thorn. That letter was shorthanded to y, therefore "ye olde shoppe"
rxdd TIL an original meaning behind the term “Hipster” was for people who laid on their sides in Opium dens.