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TIL if North Korean Olympic gymnasts don’t win medals, they are sent into labor camps

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oBWjL TIL Way back in 1994 a camera was trained upon a lonely fishtank within the as yet unknown company Netscape. It transmitted live images of the fishtank to the emerging new landscape known as the World Wide Web. It was the second live camera on the web and is the oldest camera site still in existence
jAkR TIL In West Virginia in the late 1800s you could get admitted to an insane asylum for “Novel Reading”.
yVbA8 TIL (from an Iggy Pop podcast) that Alan Hale Jr. who played the Skipper on Gilligan's Island went on to open a seafood restaurant and later an agency to book sightseeing cruises.
dDe1K TIL the Finnish telecommunications company Nokia started as a paper mill in 1865, taking its name from the nearby Nokianvirta River.
8eVwb TIL the Australian ute was invented in response to a farmer’s wife’s letter in 1932. A woman from Victoria, wrote to Ford Australia’s general manager during the Depression, asking for a vehicle that was comfortable for driving to church on Sunday yet practical for hauling pigs to market on Mondays.