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TIL the first email was sent in 1971, almost two decades before the World Wide Web existed

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ZJa4 TIL ten of the last eleven Summer Olympics have caused an economic downturn in the host country. The exception: Atlanta.
rROaM TIL that a strain of genital warts from SE Asia appears to be older than Homo sapiens and might have been acquired through intimate contact with a now extinct human species
6EBOw TIL Ronald Reagan holds the record for the most electoral votes with 525 out of 538 in the 1984 election
Lk7EZ TIL that the country with the tallest average height is Bosnia and Herzegovina (183.9 cm/6' 0" for men, 171.8 cm/5' 7" for women), and the countries with the shortest average height are Indonesia for men (158.0 cm/5' 2") and Bolivia for women (142.2 cm/4' 8")
9YB6Q TIL In Taipei there is a Dog Temple that follows an "amoral code" and is a place of worship for gangsters, thugs, prostitutes, gamblers etc. In place of incense sticks, visitors burn cigarettes as a sign of prayer.