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TIL in 1996, David Bowie released the first downloadable song by a major artist (it took 11 minutes to download). He later launched an ISP (BowieNet) to compete with AOL. Subscribers to the dial-up service were offered exclusive content, as well as an email address and "uncensored" Internet access.

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m1wbY TIL the father of rocket science was a self-educated grade school math teacher
mxemE TIL about the Shell Grotto in Margate, UK. An underground set of tunnels and passages covered from floor to ceiling in a mosaic made of seashells. It’s age and purpose remain unknown.
WkQ4A TIL there is a PUBLIC High School in Brooklyn that produced 5 Nobel Prize WINNERS, 3 US Senators, 1 Supreme Court Judge and numerous other scientists, artists and entertainers.
ZGwp TIL During the Spanish Inquisition there was a popular phrase “it is the goods that are the heretics”, meaning it was widely recognized to be about money, not faith.
waE TIL the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, who after the comic’s end became a recluse and evaded interviews and fans, revealed new art after a 16 year absence (an oil painting) to support a cartoonist with Parkinson’s.