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TIL that tomorrow marks the 8000th day of the internet

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VM604 TIL that of the 21 people executed for witchcraft in Iceland, 20 of them where male and only one was a woman.
p8eE4 TIL John Adams called Christianity a "fresh revelation" but if there was no Heaven; his advice to every man, woman, and child would be to take opium.
4xAo TIL that due to selective breeding watermelons, bananas, eggplants, carrots, corn and peach of centuries ago are virtually unrecognisable.
VN18 TIL as a struggling actor, Jim Carrey wrote himself a $10 000 000 check for ‘acting services rendered’ and dated it for thanksgiving 1995. By 1994, Carrey had made millions from Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber.
DD9D TIL that solitary confinement can cause neurological damage that is so profound it can be seen on EEG-scans and “the brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury”