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TIL that first thing ever bought-sold on internet was a bag of Marijuana.

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m1Pmx TIL of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company which manufactured luxury vehicles from 1901 to 1938, including the 1928 Fleet Housecar, a early RV.
mx1Wv TIL That the longest sperm cell in the animal kingdom (around 5.8cm long) comes from a tiny fruit fly (a few mm long)
4XNmg TIL that Garfield cartoonist Jim Davis wrote a series of morbid comic strips about the fat cat in the 1980’s, including one story line where his entire existence is the imagination of an abandoned lonely cat
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xVeno TIL the grandson of Aztec ruler Moctezuma II was baptized and married a Spanish noblewoman, his son became the first count of Moctezuma and his descendants are a part of Spanish nobility to this day.