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TIL Netzero still provides dial-up services.
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TIL Humans have a stronger bite than the common snapping turtle
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TIL of four interwoven studies of smokers, found that sadness increases cravings, frequency of smoking, and volume of puffs, and also predicts smoking relapses, even decades later.
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TIL of Forrest Bird, the creator of some of the first reliable mass-produced mechanical ventilators. He sold his first units to the army, and they were made of strawberry shortcake tins and door knobs.
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TIL There was a competing standard to the World Wide Web (www) called gopher
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TIL 19th century Londoners too poor to afford beds would rent boxes to sleep in. Those who couldn't afford the box would instead rent a rope, strung out wall-to-wall, and sleep with their torso hanging over it