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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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DQoDD TIL that bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination.
7WWL TIL the U.S. planned to drop 3-4 atomic bombs per month on Japan until they ended World War II.
j6JVN TIL Hitler's infamous Eagle's Nest mountaintop retreat survived the war and is now a restaurant and inn. It is reached using a 124m elevator drilled into the mountain
e0DyL TIL that after the outbreak of the First World War Germany didn't stop the organization of the 1916 Olympic games because no one expected the war to continue for several years.
gMWb8 TIL that, during season 4 of The Sopranos, James Gandolfini gave 16 of his co-stars $33,000 each, saying ‘‘Thanks for sticking by me.’’