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TIL Jennifer Ringley was the first camgirl on the Internet. She was also the first "lifecaster" who popularized live streaming before Justin Kan became famous with justin.tv (he later co-founded Twitch).

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VMJ8D TIL: Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar sent to Auschwitz for hiding jews; offered his life and volunteered to die in the place of another camp inmate who was about to executed, who cried that he had a ‘wife’ and a ‘child’. Maximilian on the other hand, had no family. In 1982 he was made into a Saint.
AD8Rl TIL Music is so influential on the brain that the type you listen to actually has the ability to change the way you think and look at the world.
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