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TIL Estonia is the first country to offer Digital Citizenship

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e08DE TIL that in 1922, 98 people were crushed to death while watching the movie "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" when the the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed under a blizzard's worth of fresh snow
N7KRb TIL Winchester Cathedral was built on marsh and was on the verge of collapse as it sunk into the earth. A diver named William Walker worked alone in pitch-black water for five years, eventually putting down 25,000 bags of concrete, 115,000 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks to save its foundation.
78Qwx TIL, Popular gamer Matthew Thane was shot and killed after an online feud with fellow gamer 23-year-old Alexander Baro. Alexander had gotten so angry that he drove 1,700 miles from California to Texas just to shoot and kill Matthew. After driving the 1,700 miles back home he shot and killed himself.
grWZX TIL that Ritter Sport chocolate bars are called 'sport' because they fit in the inside pocket of sports jackets men wore to matches.
EgK9X TIL about the italien Hatchiko, a dog named Fido, who waited for 14 years at a bus stop for his owner, who was killed in an allied air raid during world war 2.