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TIL The internet was born in 1969. Which happens to be the last year that the Beatles performed in public.

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6EGEY TIL Captain Planet was the first cartoon to deal with AIDS. The episode featured a villain who brainwashed the community making them think Aids could be passed by casual contact, making the whole town hate a young man infected by HIV- AIDS voiced by Neil Patrick Harris.
kJae7 TIL that James Doohan was 54 when he married 18-year-old Wende Braunberger, who he met when she was 17.
NXaJ TIL that the first European to describe the circulatory system was burned at the stake for heresy with his own books as the fuel.
M6Za TIL that Creme Puff, the world’s oldest known cat, lived to be 38 years old. Born in 1967, and died in 2005.
wLYJ1 TIL It is approximated that there are twice as many non-native speakers of English than native speakers. As a result, though Mandarin has the largest number of native speakers, English has the largest total number of speakers as well as largest number of non-native speakers.