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TIL The largest recorded snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches wide, and 8 inches thick.

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E1Nro TIL that Yugoslavia had smallpox outbreak in 1972. It was eradicated in three months after introducing Marshal law and vaccinating almost entire population of country (18 milion people) in few weeks
KEDG TIL in 2005 a man managed to trade a red paperclip for a house by making a series of swaps. Along the way he managed to get a musician a contract, met Alice Cooper and hosted “Saskatchewan’s biggest housewarming party, ever.”
eNp4 TIL the first webcam was invented to monitor a coffee pot. It was for people to avoid pointless trips to the coffee pot by providing a live 128x128 greyscale image of it.
PYR7w TIL Freud’s dog, a Chow Chow named Jofi, would often sit in on his sessions as a calming effecting on his patients. She was also good at keeping time, only getting up when the session was over.
Mkv8 TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’.