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TIL the first Google server was housed in a cabinet made of Lego bricks

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BrlWx TIL Lynette Fromme once attempted to kill President Gerald Ford in 1975.
1aNoP TIL magpie birds in Australia regularly swoop-attack cyclists and walkers who get too close to their nests. Thousands of attacks happen annually, mostly a nuisance but also causing hundreds of injuries. In 2018, a toddler sitting in a stroller was almost blinded by a magpie attacking his face.
69N4W TIL Arthur Ashe published a three-volume book in 1988 titled A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete. He worked with researchers for nearly six years on the book and later stated that the book meant more to him than any of his tennis titles.
9vkX TIL that there is no known written documentation of the food dish known as “fajitas” prior to 1971.
DQAmr TIL of a less famous battle at Thermopylae where the Gauls beat the Greeks at 279BC