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TIL that while working for web host Tripod, Ethan Zuckerman invented one of most hated tools in the advertiser’s toolkit: the pop-up ad."

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1aAOO TIL priest Joseph Müller told a joke of a dying German soldier who asked to see people for whom he was laying down his life. The nurse laid a portrait of Hitler and Göring next to him. The soldier said "Now I can die like Jesus Christ" [between two criminals]. Müller was executed for the joke.
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