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TIL that it is the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web, happy birthday internet

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5VWn TIL one of the earliest pioneers in parachuting was a woman named Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse, who jumped out of a perfectly good hydrogen balloon in 1799 and descended to safety 900 meters below.
5G6R TIL that the average house weighs as much as the amount of copper ore required to wire the average house: 40 tons.
QJRM9 TIL pistacios stored in bulk can spontaneously combust and behave like pyrophoric and self-heating substances (Class 4.2 of the IMDG Code)
l7XA1 TIL If you call 911 by mistake, You should not hang up. Rather you should let the dispatcher know what happened so they know there isn’t an emergency
yJGv TIL that Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, a native of Brazil, renounced his US citizenship to avoid paying $700 million in taxes