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TIL Xerox invented and patented Ethernet

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4DYa TIL that people accused of witchcraft who underwent trial by water actually had ropes to pull them out if they sank. The notion that the ordeal was devised as a situation without any possibility of live acquittal, even if the outcome was ‘innocent’, is a modern exaggeration.
4kLn5 TIL Though not as often referenced or as documented, the Connecticut Witch Trials took place about 30 years before the Salem Witch Trials and were the first of their kind recorded in American history.
e0E64 TIL that after the 2009 MTV Music Awards where Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, Comedy central aired his south park episode "Fishsticks" on repeat for two hours.
LkDXr TIL: That none of the three "suicide squad divers" in Chernobyl died from acute radiation syndrome (ARS). As of 2015, it was reported that both Alexei Ananenko and Valeri Bespalov were alive and well. Boris Baranov, passed away in 2005 of a heart attack.
em54 TIL that lemurs have “Stink Fights” where they rub their tail in their scent glands and try to make their opponent smell like them.