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TIL that Timothy May predicted Bitcoin, colored coins, Silk Road, and Wikileaks… in 1988.

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679Y TIL that there is an ancient Babylonian tablet dated from 1800 BCE which contains a list of Pythagorean Triples.
vPv5R TIL only one person has visited all 193 UN-recognized countries, as well as space. His name is Jim Kitchen.
4X0Dw TIL BerkShares are an alt-currency in the United States designed and issued for the Berkshire region of Massachusetts with the purpose of fostering local economic growth. Residents purchase them at 95 cents (USD) per BerkShare and around 400 businesses in the area accept them.
QJ4pX TIL That Len Bias' death was reported in the media as a crack overdose. Members of the US government used the news to promote the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 including the 100:1 ratio of crack sentencing. Len Bias actually died of a cocaine overdose, and there is no evidence of him ever using crack.
4QKR TIL a teenage girl of the Xhosa people in Africa convinced her entire tribe to kill all their cattle, saying it would bring about a cataclysm destroying English colonizers. Tens of thousands died in the subsequent famine, and the English were unharmed.