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gMjn4 TIL multiboxing in gaming can be traced back to as far as April 1992, with the TinTin++, a MUD client made up of 700 lines of C code and which allowed playing and botting multiple characters. The Merc (MUD) developers discussed a programmatic way to detect multiboxing on Usenet in 1993.
6n4Q TIL that in 1970 the US Postal Service decided on a strike after a Congressional decision to raise the wages of postal workers by only 4%, at the same time as Congress raised its own pay by 41%
e05e4 TIL that up until the end of 2013 russian soldiers used "foot wraps" instead of socks for 300 years. The rationale for using foot wraps was, that soldiers needed to be able to be fully dressed within 45 seconds.
D1QLv TIL that in 1818, treadmills were originally created to punish English prisoners.
neM7Y TIL Liam Neeson started acting because he thought the girl who would star next to him in his school plays was cute