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TIL Kevin Warwick is the first cyborg ever by getting wires surgically implanted to his nervous system

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J8AV TIL that the fastest 9-year-old today could have won bronze at the 100m sprint at the 1896 olympics.
ZpDwD TIL there's an abandoned Disney attraction on an island visible from the Magic Kingdom
9MgG TIL in 1969, the U.S. under Nixon went into nuclear readiness alert and flew nuclear armed fighter jets along Soviet airspace for three days. This was part of Nixon’s Madman Theory, in which he tried to give off the image that he was unstable to make sure the Soviets would never provoke the U.S.
e68k TIL that, as a child, Kevin Spacey burned down his sister’s treehouse and was then sent to military school. He was then expelled from military school after throwing a tire at a student’s head.
GAZl5 TIL the letter “Z” used to be pronounced “izzard"