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TIL a Monty Python sketch caused the word “spam” to become synonymous with unwanted messages.

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WkdP8 TIL that 88 million pounds (40,000 metric tons) of cosmic dust rain down on Earth each year, which is produced by collisions between asteroids and spewed from comets as they pass through the inner solar system. That's still a tiny amount though, as Earth is about 6,000 billion billion metric tons.
rRMax TIL Norway formally annexed about one-fifth of Antarctica in 2015
OoXyg TIL in UI/UX, menu layouts are officially recognized by food names (ex.••• is called ‘meatball menu’).
koLd TIL that “wildebeesties” is an acceptable plural form of “wildebeest”
P1pRG TIL that the NYC neighborhood of Marble Hill is in Manhattan, despite being attached to the Bronx and not physically part of Manhattan island