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TIL that the first known literary usage of OMG was in a letter written to Winston Churchill in 1917

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R7lLa TIL Elizabeth Shoaf, 14, was abducted & held captive in an underground bunker for 10 days. To survive, she befriended her captor & outsmarted him to obtain his phone. She text her family & police were able to trace the number to a nearby phone line.
ZpMaG TIL that the first computer bug was literally a moth which got trapped inside a computer and caused it to go berserk
v1jV8 TIL Ancient Greeks preferred small penises, as it was thought a man with a large penis was a barbarous half-animal with no self-control, while a man with a small penis was smarter and closer to the wisdom of the gods.
GAwG7 TIL of the Acali expedition, a social experiment that aimed to investigate interpersonal relationships in an isolated environment. Nicknamed the "Sex Raft," its participants remained peaceful throughout, even when the researcher tried to incite conflict.
kO67B TIL the hairy frog aka the wolverine frog gets its name from its behavior of breaking its own bones and sticking them out out of its skin to use as sharp weapons. It is the only known animal with this behavior.