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TIL that the International Space Station has been connected to the regular terrestrial Internet since January 22, 2010 when the first unassisted tweet was posted

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J1PbQ TIL- The Lend-Lease bill signed by President FDR during WW2 was called House of Representative bill 1776 (H.R. 1776). The bill was purposely given the code 1776 as a jab at Britain but it allowed Britain to borrow an unlimited amount of money and supplies to defend against Hitler.
DLkr TIL the last Emperor of Ethiopia was deposed in 1975, almost 1000 years after the first Emperor was crowned.
4X5X5 TIL that the dedication page at the front of published books was originally used as a way for an author to beg a high-influence person for money.
EAnV TIL: That babies only blink 1-2 times a minute, while adults have to blink every 2-10 seconds.
rN6Oo TIL The French conquest of Algeria lasted over 70 years, and five separate French governments. In the end as much as a third of Algeria's population was killed in the decades of invasions.