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TIL that Facebook punked tech crunch by implementing a functioning “Fax This Photo” button just visible to TC.

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oLY TIL that Walt Disney disliked the Goofy cartoons and only continued the series to make-work for his animators
4Xm1o TIL in the Republic of China the legal birthday of a leapling (person born on February 29th) is February 28th in common years. In Hong Kong, the legal birthday of a leapling is March 1 in common years.
OodBL TIL that the youngest French resistance hero was a little boy who acted as a courier for resistance fighters, slipping past enemy patrols and carrying messages. In 1950, he was posthumously awarded the rank of sergeant of the resistance. He was Marcel Pinte, and he died for France at the age of 6.
78e1r TIL Thomas Edison electrocuted dogs, cats, cows, horses, and an elephant in an attempt to discredit Nikola Tesla's work with AC electricity.
x6P5B TIL in the Salem Witch Trials, none of the guilty were burned at the stake -- 19 were hung and 1 was pressed to death by stones -- and 6 of the 20 killed were men