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TIL There were almost two internets. Then, the CIA destroyed one.

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8DAL TIL Paul Shaffer, David Letterman’s band leader, co-wrote “It’s Raining Men”.
wRYo TIL that in 1929 Alfred Hitchcock made the first recorded “That’s what she said” joke during the filming of his movie; Blackmail.
kJZoB TIL circa 1667, Massachusetts Bay settlers had enacted laws to try to reduce blackbird populations and mitigate damage to corn. One law provided that each single man in a town must kill six of those birds and, as a punishment for not doing so, he could not marry until he had complied.
ANZRa TIL That in 2004, a 25 year old virginal Japanese woman had surgery to remove a mature fetiform teratoma (a tumor that formed a doll-like structure) that contained brain, eye, spinal nerve, ear, teeth, thyroid gland, bone, bone marrow, gut, trachea, and blood vessel tissue... and more. 😳
QNJ0p TIL Voltaire met a married mother of 3, Émilie du Châtelet, 12 years his junior with whom he had an affair with for 16 years. Later, on a visit to Paris, Voltaire took a new lover - his niece, Marie Louise Mignot.