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TIL Sean Bean Has Died in Over a Quarter of His On-Screen Appearances.

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Wk6DB TIL Mark Zuckerberg was sued by 3 reporters from the Crimson, after Zuckerberg hacked into their email accounts to monitor the investigation against him. He used their invalid logins on facebook.com, to zero in on their email passwords.
8aLmP TIL about the American Revolution's Pine Tree Flag which featured the words "An Appeal to Heaven." It was one of a few different flag designs used for the new nation during the war.
kO9WE TIL, in the 1st century, the first vending machine was created. It lowered the product by using the weight of a coin. What did it sell? that’s right, vials of holy water.
v1xkx TIL that the initial prints of the painting "Under the Wave off Kanagawa" (AKA The Great Wave) had a pink sky, however, due to light exposure damaging many of the prints, the pink has faded away
GYEwg TIL about Nancy Dupree, an American-born woman who became known as the 'grandmother of Afghanistan.' Moving there in 1962 as a diplomat's wife, she spent the rest of her life in and around the country, collecting and saving documents and eventually founding a new library of Afghan history