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TIL the first thing to ever be sold on the internet was a bag of weed.

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vJpx TIL that this year 3 top UFO investigators have died, all under mysterious circumstance. in an update today it was discovered the third managed to send his mother a text saying “If anything happens to me, investigate.”, just days before his death.
vPy1D TIL about the ‘exploits’ of the Roman Emperor Tiberius.
NX7gJ TIL of Connections, a 1978 science education TV series created by science historian James Burke. The series contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation but rather that interconnected isolated events is what drives history and innovation.
jX9n TIL that wearing a Peyton Manning #18 jersey to school in Denver gets you sent home, because the numbers 13, 14, 18, 31, 41, and 81 are banned in the district due to their association with local gangs.
ba0p TIL that the band Jet’s second album was rated a 0.0 out of 10 by Pitchfork magazine and in lieu of writing a review, a YouTube video of a monkey urinating into his own mouth was put up on their site.