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TIL that there are 14 people in the world with ‘keys’ to internet worldwide security ( 7 primary keepers, 7 back-up). They serve as a last-resort measure to reconstruct the system if something calamitous were to happen to the internet.

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pPZb TIL Matt Groening originally pushed for Marge Simpson to be hiding rabbit ears under her hair, but Sam Simon strongly rejected the idea. Evidence of this can be seen in other Simpsons media.
W0p4 TIL Buzz Aldrin was the first man to curse on the moon when he said to Neil Armstrong “Bloody hell, I’ve just taken a shit in my space suit.”
78eyp TIL Snowflake was the only known albino gorilla to date. He lived in a zoo in Spain until he died, in 2003, as a result of cancer likely related to his albinism.
KeQ9 TIL Chlorine was originally put into pools to stop the spread of Polio.
w89W TIL that Al Gore’s documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, was held by the British High Court to have nine errors in it, and cannot be shown in schools unless teachers point out the potentially problematic sections.