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TIL of John Andaman, the name given to the first Andamanese man captured by the British during their colonization of the islands in 1857. Though amazed by British Calcutta, he quickly grew ill with foreign diseases, and was returned to his home to advocate for British rule. He was never seen again.

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Wm6N TIL the Browns were the first team to use a radio inside of a helmet. During the 1956 season opener in Chicago, quarterback George Ratterman wore the helmet and had to contend with outside interference. “I’m getting cab calls from Michigan Avenue to State Avenue,” he complained to his teammates.
9wybm TIL: Orcas live in matrilineal families
MXaV TIL A RAF pilot fell 18,000 feet without a parachute, only to suffer a sprained leg. His reaction to the fall: lit a cigarette.
aKOM TIL of the Confederate Memorial Fountain in Helena, Montana which wasn’t formally recognized as a territory until 1864 and didn’t become a state until 1889. Confederate troops never came within 1,000 miles of the area
epgpg TIL The first reference to files in the context of computing was in 1940 when a computer function was stored in a “file of punched cards”. The idea of a file system that managed virtual "files" on a storage device was introduced in 1961 by the Burroughs MCP and the MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System