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TIL of a place called Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky

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9YYZ6 TIL that in 1914, four empires claimed to be successors to the Roman Empire; the German Empire, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire and Italian Empire. All of them collapsed because of WW1 except for the Italian Empire, leaving them as the only empire to claim succession from the Roman Empire.
wdn1 TIL: Color-Coded Plastic Ties Tell You Day Your Bread Was Baked, blue for Monday, green for Tuesday, red for Thursday, white for Friday, and yellow for Saturday.
v1Wx TIL that a 15-year-old Canadian executed the first major DDoS crippling popular websites likes Yahoo!, CNN, eBay, Dell and Amazon to show the world how easily a kid can knockout websites, was sentenced to 8 mos juvenile detenction and was FORCED to donate $250 to charity.
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