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OGBP1 TIL Freenet, the first darknet and the network often cited as the beginning of the "dark web", was originally a thesis project by Edinburgh University student Ian Clarke. It received a B.
nDxB TIL of the Ikea effect, where you give a higher value to things you built.
oB7D7 TIL that during the Russo-Japanese war, a lieutenant from Montenegro beat a samurai in a swordfight.
R5aBl TIL that Tchaikovsky's 1892 'The Nutcracker' ballet was based upon Alexander Dumas' 1844 'The Story of a Nutcracker' ('Histoire d'un casse-noisette' which was in turn based upon the original 1816 short story 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann.
E1Wkw TIL that now Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was instrumental in ending the 1994-95 MLB Baseball Strike