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TIL A decade before the Internet went mainstream, French citizens were interacting via Minitel, a computer network open to anyone with a telephone

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Q7w6 TIL when the Titanic wireless operator got a message from a nearby ship saying they were surrounded by ice … he responded “Shut up, shut up, I am busy …” … and hit the iceberg 45 minutes later
M7Nda TIL Trota of Salerno was a 12th century female medical practitioner whose wrote on a variety of topics including gynecology and cosmetics, and her writing were used by doctors for centuries
P1WBO TIL That Comedian Norm Macdonald purposely bombed on stage with such extremely vulgar material during a family comedy night that 80% of the audience walked out. The Governor of Iowa even asked him to leave the state.
4kXvw TIL that cats are not nocturnal or diurnal, they are crepuscular: a circadian rhythm where they are most active during dusk/dawn (low-light hours)
R7lVQ TIL in 1624 Marco Antonio de Dominis was publicly burned at the stake by the Catholic Church for his many “heresies” in both science and philosophy. Among them — being first to use science to accurately describe how rainbows are formed.