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

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ZpPMp TIL that the Pope of the Coptic [Egyptian] Orthodox Church is chosen from the final 3 candidates by a blindfolded child drawing a name from a chalice
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neog7 TIL that Nazi Germany claimed an Antarctic Colony named New Swabia
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