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TIL PCWorld rated the ZIP drive as the 15th worst technology product of all time in 2006, but then rated it as the 23rd best technology product in 2007

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dDDEB TIL United States Quarters have been used to play arcade games since Sega released the game “Periscope” in 1966.
LQ5AZ TIL: The Great Slave Auction occurred in 1859 and consisted of 436 slaves auctioned over 2 days to over 200 buyers and sightseers. It was heavily advertised and netted over $9.9 million in today's money. It was considered the largest slave auction until 2022, when historians found a larger auction.
6E07m TIL Persian leader Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from captivity in Babylon 538 BCE. Isaiah 45:1 of the Hebrew Bible even refers to him as a messiah and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so.
OBm6 TIL Hellbanning: The practice of making a user’s [troll’s] contributions invisible to the rest of an online community, while the user still perceives they are participating normally – i.e. blanket enforcement of “don’t feed the trolls”.
R7xN8 TIL: There is an ethnic group called the Baganda, that live in Buganda; a sub national kingdom of Uganda, where they speak Luganda, and a person from here is call a Muganda.