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TIL The image format "PNG" is pronounced "ping" officially

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xVa07 TIL that the word “quarantine” comes from the 40-day period, or “quaranti giorni,” that ships were required to wait outside of the port Venice, Italy during the time of the Black Death (1346-53).
N7bDM TIL that Mosquitos are the only type of creature to kill more humans than homo sapiens.
yV5Re TIL In 1976, 3 men kidnapped a school bus with 26 children aboard. They then buried them alive inside a box truck to try and get a $5,000,000 ransom.
Akya TIL the free market value of cocaine, worth $1,000 on the black market, is $20.
8aeP8 TIL The Twilight Zone was initially a difficult series to sell, and critics were not impressed. In a 1959 interview with Rod Serling, Mike Wallace asked: "You're going to be working so hard on The Twilight Zone that, in essence, you've given up on writing anything important for television, right?".