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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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AY5n TIL in the late 1920s Lysol disinfectant was marketed as a feminine hygiene product.
jNrDa TIL: That the Seven Wonders of the World were written about by Philo of Byzantium as an advertisement to sightseers
XJLQ TIL There is an alarm clock that donates your money to an organization you hate if you press snooze.
lb5 TIL The 2012 Olympics may end up costing London about 10 times what had originally been estimated.
NZP8 TIL that in Nikola Tesla’s elderly years he became obsessed with feeding pigeons particularly a white female one, speaking of her he said “ I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life”