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TIL Neapolitan ice cream was invented in Prussia.

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5YJY9 TIL that if the UK chain of command is killed in an nuclear war, each nuclear submarines have a hand written letter from the PM telling them what to do. They can: Retaliate, not retaliate, use the commanders judgment or put themselves under the control of an allied country.
Z84EG TIL in 1996, David Bowie released the first downloadable song by a major artist (it took 11 minutes to download). He later launched an ISP (BowieNet) to compete with AOL. Subscribers to the dial-up service were offered exclusive content, as well as an email address and "uncensored" Internet access.
69QJ7 TIL after the first time Ginevra King rejected F. Scott Fitzgerald, he dropped out of Princeton and enlisted in the army in order to commit suicide-by-combat on the Western front. He hastily wrote and submitted his first book, which launched his career, and was obsessed with her over his entire life
KYbDa TIL: The only member of ZZ Top without a beard had the last name "Beard"
GYeVE TIL that both "canceled" and "cancelled" are acceptable ways to spell the past tense of the verb "cancel". Americans favor "canceled" (one l), while British English and other dialects prefer "cancelled" (two l's). However, there is only one correct spelling of the noun "cancellation".