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TIL the guy who didn’t invent e-mail sues everyone that points out he didn’t invent e-mail.

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Me5jm TIL that Ernest Hemingway worked for the KGB, tracked Nazi U-Boats from his fishing boat in Cuba, got charged with war crimes while leading a French militia against the Nazis, and had a six toed cat (marked as NSFW for other information provided in link)
OGn4L TIL Yorkshire has a little burbling creek that is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it
XRbR TIL that Lakota people legally own most of South Dakota (Treaty of Fort Laramie - 1868)
awwG0 TIL Singapore is the largest importer of sand world-wide and the world’s highest per capita consumer of sand at 5.4 tonnes per inhabitant
v5gR TIL “Smoke on the Water” is a true story – it’s about a Zappa and Mothers of Invention concert where the whole place caught fire and burned down. Deep Purple were there to witness the whole thing.