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TIL that all of the 14 billion publicly accessible web sites are connected to each other by 19 clicks or less.

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YpmwP TIL Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. The first call was from Martin Cooper (Motorola) to his rival Joel Engel (Bell Labs). The phone weighed 1.1kg, had talk time of 30 minutes and took 10 hours to recharge.
9YjO6 TIL that an entomologist called Justin Schmidt allowed plenty of venomus insects to sting him in order to record the pain intensity in what's called "Schmidt pain Scale".
dKK TIL: Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR, flew 300 combat missions over Europe in WWII, finishing his career as a Brigadier General
W7pRo TIL there's a dormant volcano in Mississippi called the Jackson Volcano, which is 2,900 feet below the city of Jackson.
wGBJ TIL a Hungarian man was shot in the frontal lobe during World War 1, making it impossible for him to fall asleep. He continued to live a full, sleepless life.