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TIL that the first thing ever sold on the net was weed, sold by Stanford students to counterparts in MIT

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Rjy8 TIL that Scientology has its own prison called “The Hole” where Scientology executives are sent for months or even years of confinement, manual labor and humiliation.
KOx79 TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time of its collapse, is still alive. I swore he was super old in the 80's!
ROLj TIL Ralph Wiggum was not canonically made to be Chief Wiggum’s son until season 4. The two characters were developed independently and only later the writers decided to make them father and son.
QJD8X TIL that Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece is the only stadium in the world built entirely of marble. Additionally, it had a greater capacity (50 000) in 144 AD than today (45 000)
MeBw7 TIL that no one can agree on what killed George Washington, but that he definitely lost about 40% of his blood during his final day from bloodletting.