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TIL of William and Francis Buckland, eccentric father and son scientists who both developed the desire to consume as many different animals as possible. It is believed William Buckland also ate the heart of King Louis XIV. Charles Darwin called him a “vulgar and almost coarse man”

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8a0wP TIL The first email attachment ever sent was on March 11, 1992, by Nathaniel Borenstein, "the father of the file attachment". The creation of this technology (co-created by Ned Freed) was to fulfill Borenstein's desire to one day be able to receive pictures of future grandchildren via email.
rNAJx TIL that despite being part of the British Commonwealth, Canada never cared about cricket because it was seen as a sport geared toward snobby British people, as well as how the popularity of baseball spread quicker in Canada before cricket had a chance.
epmpE TIL the jigsaw puzzle was commercialized around 1760 by John Spilsbury. His design took world maps, and cut out the individual nations in order for them to be reassembled by students as a geographical teaching aid.
69g5W TIL in 1942, the city Winnipeg, Manitoba was mock-occupied by mock-Nazis, part of a campaign known as "If Day" to sell war bonds
e0Ng5 TIL In WW2 on D Day, the Germans had a devastating thermobaric weapon called Taifun B, based on kerosene & coal dust, to be delivered over the battlefield by rocket propelled canisters. They positioned it in Calais, so it didn’t get used against the landings.