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TIL that Daniel Daly received his first Medal of Honor for single-handedly killing over 200 enemy soldiers through the night in 1900

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ry70 TIL Shaggy the musician’s given name is Orville…. Shaggy from Scooby Doo’s given name is Norville.
6EoEW TIL The first streaming music service started in 1897. Users in New York could pick up their phones and connect to the Telharmonium, a central hub that would pipe music being played live by two musicians playing 24 hours a day.
R7RXj TIL Ubisoft partnered with the British Museum to apply machine learning to speed the deciphering of ancient hieroglyphics
5xmR TIL, in 1981, a man who had been bullying residents of a small Missouri town was murdered in broad daylight when 46 townspeople rose up against him, in an act of vigilante justice. No charges were ever filed despite their being 30 - 40 witness to the shooting.
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