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TIL that the first commercial mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, was released in 1983 and had a price tag of $3,995.

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R7AE7 TIL that Benjamin Franklin pioneered the Pros and Cons list
6j0Y TIL in 2011 a bishop watched a television interview with Boy George, and discovered that an 18th century stolen Cypriot icon was hanging in the singer’s living room. Boy George immediately agreed to return the artefact and received a gift in return.
PYYln TIL the "o" in o'clock stands for "of the" for example "four of the clock"
e0xp4 TIL Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado in 20 years planted 2.7 million trees to afforest part of The Atlantic Forest & resulted in 1,500 acres of rainforest being recovered with 293 of plants, 15 reptiles, 172 bird, 15 amphibian & 33 mammal species have returned.
nWlYb TIL about Tobia Nicotra, a prolific Italian forger whose forgeries have been found in the Library of Congress and the Metropolitan Opera. He visited the U.S. in 1932 and led an orchestra impersonating Riccardo Drigo, a composer who had died two years earlier.