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TIL the French government got duped out of 150 million by an Italian man with a photocopier

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d8wMB TIL that Queen Elizabeth II is considered the first head of state to have used electronic mail. On March 26, 1976, sent her first email while taking part in a network technology demonstration in Malvern, England. The message was transmitted over ARPANET, the forerunner of the modern Internet.
jdla TIL that when Harald Bohr (brother of Niels Bohr), noted Danish mathematician & footballer, defended his doctoral thesis the audience consisted of more football fans than mathematicians.
gJwW TIL that in 1947, the US War Department released a short film about how racist and bigoted demagogy allowed the Nazis to rise to power in Germany, and warns Americans not to fall for similar demagogy propagated by American racists and bigots.
VMXr0 TIL pistachio shells take several years to decompose
XEAxQ TIL A mouse utopia experiment with unlimited food and water caused them to not breed, or carry pregnancies to term, violent tendencies, and isolation. The ones who isolated themselves avoided the violence but lost all social skills and stopped breeding all together.