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TIL that this was the first ever video of Youtube

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vP6a7 TIL: Socrates was very worried that the increasing use of books in education would have the effect of ruining students' ability to memorise things. We only remember this now because Plato wrote it down.
mx9Xy TIL your brain/eyes will generate a "light show" (known as the Prisoner's Cinema) if kept in darkness for long periods of time. The phenomenon is reported by prisoners confined to dark cells and by others kept in darkness as well as; truck drivers, pilots and practitioners of intense meditation.
16Zw4 TIL about James Miller aka 'The Fan Man' who in 1993 paraglided into a boxing ring during a heavyweight title fight between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe. He paraglided over an NFL playoff game, FA cup football match, and Buckingham Palace. He was then banned from re-entering the UK for life.
b9Dr7 TIL that Abraham Lincoln was almost in a saber duel with James Shield on September 22, 1842 until John J. Hardin and Dr. R.W. English ceased the hostilities between the two.
N4N TIL that there are more people of Lebanese descent in Brazil than there are in Lebanon itself.