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Today I Learned that wifi is an acronym that was made up by a marketing firm and it doesn't actually stand for anything.

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pYvQp TIL In 2012, following the Negros earthquake in the Philippines, rumors spread in Cebu City that a tsunami had hit causing residents to panic. The panic was said to have been caused by a misinterpreted cry for someone named "Chona Mae," which was mistaken as a call for "tsunami."
Z8ZRQ TIL Charles Babbage "the father of the computer" also invented the pilot , the pointy thing on the front of older trains, to remove cows from the track.
78Kr TIL Rochus Misch, age 95, is the last surviving person to have known Hitler personally and witnessed his suicide. He worked as his personal bodyguard, courier and phone operator in the Fuhrerbunker, and still lives in the same house in Berlin where he moved upon his release from the Soviets in 1954
5Y6kR TIL after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which killed 200.000 people, UN peacekeepers from Nepal were sent to the country. Sadly, the peacekeepers brought cholera with them leading to a massive outbreak which infected 800.000 people, and killing at least 9000.
ANg0g TIL that when you donate your body to science, it can get used as a crash test dummy, for medical training, forensic research or to save a life through organ transplants.