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TIL what grep stands for (“Globally search for a Regular Expression and Print it”)

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bvrE TIL that in 1997, Nelson Mandela described meeting the Spice Girls as “the best day of [his] life.”
Be1b TIL in 2014, South Korean Christians put up a Christmas tree visible from the North Korean Border. North Korea responded by calling it a “tool for psychological warfare” and threatened to bomb it.
16ox4 TIL that on May 1, 1969 Mr. Rogers, host of the longtime children's television landmark Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, appeared in Washington before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications to express his disagreement with a proposal by President Nixon to cut federal funding for public broadcasting.
dOwE TIL dodo birds were not dumb but friendly to people, and that is what led to their demise.
JYmv4 TIL that the South Korean government started massively subsidizing (1%+ of GDP) its entertainment industry in 1994 after realizing one Jurassic Park film made as much as the combined sales of 1.5 million Hyundai cars.