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TIL the first thing purchased on the internet was marijuana

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mxDrv TIL British M16 Agents once hacked an Al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced all bomb instructions with cupcake recipes.
p8RRG TIL in 1951, Natalie Carbone Mangini became the first female scientist at Westinghouse. They meant to hire a man but they misread her resume and gave her an interview when she showed up. As a radiochemist, she worked on the world's first full-scale atomic reactor and the first nuclear submarine.
rlp4 TIL In 2001 a judge sentenced a 17 year old boy, arrested for paraphernalia, to listen to Afroman’s “Because I Got High” and write a three paragraph report about it.
rRQYw TIL that dogs hide their food to have for later. I’ve been giving my dog pigs ears as treats and found them all hidden in the yard underneath gras/dirt. Apparently it’s an instinct that can kick in from time to time.
yQKR8 TIL of a German art project called the Time Pyramid. It consists of 120 concrete blocks, but only one block is placed every 10 years. So far, 3 blocks have been placed. It is scheduled to be completed in the year 3183