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TIL that Fabio got hit in the face by a goose while on a rollercoaster in 1999.

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nW9vP TIL: The first message ever sent on the Internet was “LO”
9XYG TIL that in 1599, a Spanish governor in early colonial Ecuador was executed by having molten gold poured down his throat.
0d10p TIL the first recorded labor strike in history occurred in the 12th Century BCE in Ancient Egypt, when artisans tasked with building the necropolis (burial chambers) of King Ramses III struck repeatedly over insufficient rations
BrxXr TIL gay and trans people were widely accepted in India, until European colonists made them illegal.
kJ44g TIL that Dr. Leila Alice Daughtry Denmark was America's oldest known practicing physician when she retired in 2001. She was one of the first women pediatricians in Atlanta, and has been seeing patients and advising parents for more than seventy years.