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TIL that the webcam was invented just because 3 people wanted to keep a check on coffee level without walking to their breakroom.

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0wZJN TIL during the D-Day scene in Saving Private Ryan, the two surrendering "Germans," killed by American soldiers, were saying in Czech: "Please don't shoot me! I'm not German, I'm Czech, I didn't kill anyone!" The American soldiers jokingly translate it as "Look, I washed for supper!"
84VZ TIL When someone called the black chauffeur of Alice Roosevelt (daughter of Teddy) a “black bastard”, the driver took it in stride. Roosevelt, however, leaned out the window and shouted “Shut up, you white son of a bitch.”
VBKbk TIL in 2012 two drunk tourists stole a penguin named Dirk from an aquarium after they broke into the SeaWorld in Queensland, Australia. The next day they released him into a canal but were spotted by locals, who reported them. Both were fined £637.
vmGj TIL Felix Baumgartner’s skydiving record was shattered just a few months ago by a Google Exec
XEL5r TIL, cats kill approximately 3 billion birds per year.