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TIL that one of the most important images in the history of electronic imaging is a digitized Playboy centerfold, from November 1972.

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e0lE4 TIL abou the paradox of intolerance, which states that a society with unlimited tolerance will be destroyed by the intolerant because said society would tolerate them.
ne9yP TIL about the origins of US whistleblower protections. In 1777, 10 soldiers reported their commanding officers for torture. Instead of branding the soldiers as traitors, the Founding Fathers passed a law protecting them and future whistleblowers.
1aMb7 TIL that there is a tree that legally "owns itself" and the land within 8 feet of the tree
V0am TIL that some people have been recorded and survived having a blood alcohol content over 1.00%.
MenJB TIL in 1938, Charles A. Lindbergh received the Service Cross of the German Eagle, presented to him by Hermann Goering on behalf of Adolf Hitler. The medal was partially for his feats of flying but also for being an ardent proponent of Nazi Germany's military superiority and American isolationism.