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TIL The world’s first smartphone, Simon, was created 15 years before the iPhone

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epxXn TIL The Canadian government sent the military (armed with rifles, bayonets, tanks, and IFV) to violently break up a First Nations protest over a golf course expansion onto their sacred burial grounds
4wpR TIL that Ancient Roman politician Gaius Gracchus had a bounty placed on his head that was equivalent to his head’s weight in gold. The head was delivered, but the reward was never paid because it was discovered that his captor removed Gaius’ brain and filled his head with molten lead.
54BR TIL Germans have a tool which breaks eggs perfectly called a Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher.
wL7vo TIL That the Oldest Archived Arpanet message is dated from 11 November 1980 and used Bang path email addresses.
Ajbo TIL in film-making that ‘wrap’, referring to the completion of film-shooting, is actually an abbreviation for 'Wind, Reel, And Print’ and an entirely-completed film is termed 'in the can’. The terms came from the early days of filming.