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TIL the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented by a single person.

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l4WV TIL Tété-Michel Kpomassie, a Togolese writer, fell in love with Greenland as a child because of the absence of snakes in the country, his biggest fear. Due to this, he ran away from home and after 12 years he finally reached Greenland. He then wrote a book about it called: “An African in Greenland”
49Qw TIL that in 1938, a Kindergarten teacher who witnessed a burglary was jailed for five days because she wore a pair of slacks into court the day she was called to testify.
9bJp TIL A man stayed drunk during the entire Civil War to avoid being drafted
eonn TIL that Frederick the Great, one of Prussia’s greatest monarchs, who ruled for 46 years, was forced to watch the decapitation of what was likely his gay lover, Hans Hermann von Katte when he was 18.
n0WG TIL that Jim Carrey wrote letters to Tupac Shakur when Tupac was in prison to help him laugh and smile.