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TIL the first thing sold on the Internet (‘94) was a pizza from Pizza Hut

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l7aJG TIL beaver dams saved a wetland in the Czech Republic. The government was planning to do the same thing, but the bureaucracy took too long. The dams saved $1.2 million.
GYBg1 TIL that until 1999 in Germany, bribes were a tax-deductible business expense, and there were no penalties for bribing foreign officials. The German company Siemens used to engage in bribery in developing countries, where bribery was common, and continued to do so after criminalizing it in 1999.
j6jWQ TIL Vesna Vulović fell 33,330 feet and she is credited as surviving the highest fall ever recorded.
8aNbG TIL that Malaria killed ~10k troops in the US Civil War
KYr7a TIL while viewing a solar eclipse on 18 August 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen made an observation that led to the discovery of helium. It was the first time a chemical element was discovered on an extraterrestrial body before being found on the earth.