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

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YGoP TIL: Church attendance in Ireland dropped from 90% in the 80s to 18% by 2011. The change is attributed to the church’s attitude towards the multiple sex scandals that surfaced from the 90s onwards.
b971Z TIL people during the American Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s were encouraged to march in their finest clothes so as to reframe the very idea of what a disrupter looked like.
epbVk TIL the name of the video plataform Vimeo is an anagram of "movie", a portmanteau of the words "video" and "me" and a play of another word: "mimeo".
J1vQv TIL the well known animated music video for Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is one segment of a 65 minute animated film set to their album, Discovery.
AjV4 TIL Elon Musk stated in an interview that he “wants to die on Mars, just not on impact.”