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TIL testicles have a reflex to move away from harm.
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TIL In 1971 Michael S. Hart created the first eBook by typing the United States Declaration of Independence into a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer at the University of Illinois. Soon after he transmitted the text to other users on the mainframe’s network.
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TIL that Oliver Cromwell, an English general, was subjected to posthumous execution. His corpse was dug up, hung in chains and beheaded. His head was displayed on a pole outside Westminster Hall for 4 years.
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TIL that the first episode of ‘The Crocodile Hunter’ featured Steve Irwin and his wife, Terry, trapping and handling crocodiles on their honeymoon.
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TIL that an audio recording of a lock being opened provides enough data to reproduce the key required to open that lock, even with a cell phone's microphone.
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TIL Marlon Brandon was in the Civil Rights movement throughout his career, and later advocated for the rights of indigenous Americans. His outspoken activism, in the midst of the harshly segregated '60s, earned him a reserved place near the podium of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream"