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TIL: The first message ever sent on the Internet was “LO”

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R70l1 TIL that ancient Egyptian's tried to domesticate cheetahs as house pets, and also tamed them to be used for hunting.
x6p0 TIL that Jews (0.2% of World population) have won 22% of the Nobel prizes to date, excluding two more today.
DjpY TIL Russia has a smaller GDP than California, Texas or New York and is comparable in GDP to South Korea, Australia, Spain and Mexico.
nW0vY TIL That a Contronym is a word that can have two opposite valid meanings, for example Cleave, to split something and also hold on to something, or another example is Bolt, to affix something and also to get away. There are many others.
pYBx4 TIL about the bald-hairy pattern: a consistent pattern in which bald rulers of Russ|a are always replaced by hairy ones, and vice versa.