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TIL the reply to the first tweet ever was “f*ck you”

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kAR1 TIL in 1998, a woman disappeared while awaiting trial after she had drunkenly killed a woman in a fatal car crash. In 2013, she was arrested in Manitoba, Canada after bragging in a bar about having gotten away with the crime.
d8Lvr TIL about the ‘mad hatterpillar’, which wears its discarded heads on its body every time it outgrows its exoskeleton
d7Pd TIL that Stephen King’s drug and alcohol addiction was so bad that he can barely remember writing Cujo. King’s family staged an intervention, showing him evidence taken from his office including beer cans, cigarette butts, grams of cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, dextromethorphan and marijuana.
9wgEX TIL that the Imperial House of Japan is the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world, having been traditionally founded in 660 BC, while the oldest historically-attested evidence of the dynasty dates to 539 AD, which was the start of Emperor Kinmei, who was the 29th Emperor to rule.
nWBoo TIL that Lea Thompson who played Marty McFly's mother in Back to the Future, was only 10 days older than Michael J. Fox.