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TIL that Fidonet, a pre-internet networking technology, still exists and is used today

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6wX7 TIL of Ponso, a roughly 40-year-old chimp, who was dumped on an abandoned island off the Ivory Coast more than 30 years ago after being used for medical testing. He relies on the kindness of a nearby villager, Germain, who’s dropped off bananas and bread for him ever since he was left to die
Egyox TIL The inspiration for the creation of YouTube (according to co-founder Jawed Karim, the guy in "Me at the zoo") was that it was difficult to find videos online of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime flash.
e7Z5 TIL For a period of thirty years a man weighed everything he ate and drank, as well as all of his waste, in order to study metabolism
7rLVb TIL Australian adventurer Francis Birtles in 1927 became the first man ever to drive from England to Australia by car
9VRQ TIL that Mao ordered billions of sparrows to be killed, this exacerbated a famine that killed more 20 million people.