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TIL that Yoda had a first name: Minch

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6EMVQ TIL The concept for the internet started in the 1960s, when MIT’s J.C.R. Licklider popularized the idea of an “Intergalactic Network” of computers, computer scientists then developed the concept of “packet switching,” a method for effectively transmitting electronic data
Jr8B TIL the Knickerbocker Knitting Company, later known as Champion, made the first hoodie
GY1KG TIL When he was the Governor of Tennessee, former US President Andrew Johnson made with his own hands a very handsome suit of clothes and sent it to the Governor of Kentucky, who had been a blacksmith in his young days. He forged a shovel and tongs and sent them to Johnson.
Bgred TIL A fluorocarbon called perfluorohexane has both enough oxygen and carbon dioxide with enough space between the molecules that animals submerged in the liquid can still breath normally.
jOAQ TIL When helium is cooled to almost absolute zero, the lowest temperature possible, it becomes a liquid with surprising properties. It can flow against gravity and will start running up and over the lip of a glass container.