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TIL that the first thing that was ever bought and sold over the internet was weed. In 1971 or 1972, Stanford students using Arpanet accounts at Stanford's AI Laboratory engaged in a commercial transaction with their counterparts at MIT, and thus the first act of e-commerce was a pot deal.

9YEAD TIL Franz von Papen (1879-1969) helped Hitler become German chancellor in 1933 and served as his vice chancellor. Though he soon realized how mistaken he had been, he continued to serve Hitler, and lived long enough to be released and write his memoirs
grNZ7 TIL The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of five million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970
a87D9 TIL that the film 'Transylvania 6-5000' (1985) starring Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. was shot in Yugoslavia and coproduced by the Dow Chemical Company. Dow had funds in Yugoslavian Dinars that could only be spent within the country, and they needed to unfreeze the assets.
mxnAy TIL that the parliament of Iceland, the Althing, is the oldest surviving parliament in the world, having been founded in 930
Ypp0r TIL of the death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams. Who was found dead, locked inside a bag in the bath. Police ruled the cause of death was suicide despite no fingerprints or DNA being found. A former KGB agent has since said he was killed by Russian hitmen after refusing to become a double agent.