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TIL of Cragside House - The first house in the world to be powered by Hydroelectric. It was the first 'smart home' of the 1800's with water powered electricity, laundry, rotisserie and even a dishwasher.

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PY4QG TIL Released in 1932, White Zombie is considered the first feature length zombie film. Reviewers were generally negative.
a86gA TIL that the first national spelling championship was held in 1908, 17 years before the first Scripps National Spelling Bee, and was won by a 14-year-old black girl named Marie C. Bolden, who won with a perfect score.
6EWkW TIL The Berlin Wall started to be torn down in 1989 by mistakenly-empowered citizens after an East German spokesman misspoke at a press conference and mentioned immediate border crossing privileges for every citizen.
nem0W TIL many ships engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing often fly the flag of Mongolia. Being a land-locked country, Mongolia is one of the Flag of Convenience nations and has weak or no fishing regulations.
oBkRK TIL that the version of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" most people have seen is an edited version produced for the 1966 rebroadcast. The 1965 version was considered lost media until 2018, when an original film reel was discovered and its contents were uploaded to the internet