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TIL the first internet spammers were lawyers selling immigration services. At the time, they faced severe backlash from ISP’s and users.

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QXXE TIL There is a man still living with no heart. Fully conscious, speaking, and feeling yet he just doesnt have a pulse.
7wAr TIL the descendants of black slaves owned by the Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma are still battling with the tribal leadership in a fight to be recognized as full and legitimate members of the tribe, after about 25,000 were disenfranchised in the early 1980s.
6EDvl TIL in 1895 there were only TWO cars in the entire state of Ohio....and they crashed into each other
R7yyw TIL of the White House Peace Vigil a 24-hour a day anti-nuclear weapons peace vigil started by William Thomas in 1981. Thomas believed it to be the longest running uninterrupted anti-war protest in U.S. history
YGPr TIL that Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter, asked for an autopsy to be done after his death to determine what made him kill. The autopsy found a tumor pressing on his amygdala, possibly influencing his actions.