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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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a5rZ TIL that the various parties claiming credit for the “COEXIST” logo have been locked in a bitter legal dispute over trademarks and credits for 14 years and are literally not speaking to each other.
kOAVB TIL that rapper Coolio's cameo in Batman & Robin was an Easter Egg setting up a fifth movie in the series. Coolio is uncredited as playing Dr. Jonathan Crane aka The Scarcrow who would've been the main villain in Batman Unchained.
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vPM7x TIL that Simon Helberg (Howard Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory) guest-starred on the Friends spin-off Joey as an engineering student at Caltech – essentially a prototype of the Howard Wolowitz character