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TIL Imgur is creating tools that will let users track their images across the Web and see where they’re reposted

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LQbZP TIL that the first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. He was also the first to use the @ symbol in email addresses, which is still used today to separate the username from the computer name!
R7Xoa TIL clothes hangers weren’t invented until the early 1900s. Before that people had fewer clothes and used shelves and hooks.
B99K TIL Mythbusters (no pun intended) found that a barista with a DD bra size resulted in men tipping 30% more and women tipping 40% more
Z8Pbv TIL Superman co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto and he had been greatly impressed by Toronto’s vitality and size. In creating the Metropolis skyline, Shuster drew on his fond memories of Toronto, which he continued to consider more beautiful than Cleveland, where he later lived
gMxWW TIL Despite having different names asteroids - meteors and meteorites are all the same thing - just in different places. When it's still in space it's called an asteroid - when it enters Earth's atmosphere it's called a meteor and if it actually hits the surface it is a meteorite