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TIL that the recent growth in incest themed pornography production and consumption is driven by demand from millennial generation viewers

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kjZ7 TIL that the first streaming music service started in 1897. Users in New York could pick up their phones & connect to the Telharmonium, a central hub that would pipe music being played live by two musicians playing 24 hours a day.
pY84O TIL about the Cat Gap, a 7 million-year period from 18.5 million to 25 million years ago when cats became rare or nonexistent in the fossil record in North America
wowp6 TIL of the Sphinx, a french ironclad warship initially built for the confederacy. After the Union blocked the transaction France sold the ship to Denmark, who refused to accept the ship and sold it back to the confederates. The ship then changed hands several times to end his carreer in Japan.
moGx TIL The “Scotch” in Scotch Tape was originally a racist insult meaning ‘stingy.’ Early efforts at creating the product used too little adhesive, causing one frustrated worker to demand they “take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it.”
VMKX0 TIL that geese are one of the oldest groups of birds, having changed very little from the age of the dinosaurs. Relying on water for food and burrows for nesting is thought to have played a big part in surviving the K-T extinction.