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TIL A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet

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QJ4jd TIL Top Gun's Charlie was based on Christine Fox, a mathematician who worked at the Center for Naval Analyses, just accross the street from the Navy's Topgun School. In 2013 she became the Defense Department's acting Deputy Secretary, making her the highest ranking female in the DoD's history
DBxY TIL Sophie Walton, former slave girl and house servant to the Holiday family, taught a young Doc Holiday how to manipulate cards.
x6WB TIL The Soviet Union, in 1922, (under Vladimir Lenin) was one of the first countries in Europe to decriminalize homosexuality
WOVo TIL Brussels sprouts and cilantro contain flavour compounds that are undetectable to some, but make the foods unpalatable to others.
BreEy TIL an EPA employee was convicted of defrauding the agency of $800,000 for skipping work over the course of 11 years by pretending to be a CIA agent.