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TIL in 2002 Microsoft forgot to pay to renew one of their domains and a random guy paid the bill so he could check his hotmail.

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XKNR TIL sliced bread was first sold in 1928, marketed as “The greatest thing since wrapped bread”
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OLXL TIL that Stalin’s son Yakov was captured while fighting Nazis in 1941. Nazis offered to exchange him for Friedrich Paulus, the German Field Marshal captured by the Soviets, but Stalin turned the offer down allegedly saying, “I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant.”; Yakov died in captivity
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