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TIL that DMX is afraid of the internet.

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wLRn7 TIL that glassblowers in Alexandria, Egypt were the first to produce clear glass around 100 AD through the introduction of manganese dioxide into the glass making process. Thereafter, the Romans began to use clear glass for architectural purposes.
LLG9 TIL that in 1964, a man placed himself in a box and had himself air-freighted from London to Australia because he couldn’t afford the airfare. He nearly died of dehydration.
nneo TIL President John F. Kennedy was a methamphetamine addict and suffered from a delusional “psychotic break” in the Carlyle Hotel.
9EWp TIL South Korea, despite having completed the transistion to digital broadcast (ATSC) in 2012, still maintains analogue broadcast near its borders for North Koreans watching South Korean TV in secret.
5AOR TIL that Hawking, in his famous lecture ‘Life In the Universe’, allowed for the thought that intelligence may not be of long-term value in the process of evolution