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TIL: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority officially recognizes port 666 as the port for the First Person Shooter: Doom

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KjG6 TIL the reason England kept the Germanic ‘Earl’ rather than the Latinised 'Count’ in the Middle Ages was because 'Count’ was too phonetically similar to 'cunt’
VMaY0 TIL the Aldabra Rail is the only example of an animal evolving twice. It evolved ~136,000 years ago, went extinct for ~35,000 years before re-evolving. The second evolution took roughly 20,000 years.
79A7 TIL that when ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ began, Patrick Stewart dreaded having to learn and recite technobabble dialogue. He got used to doing so, however, and “space-time continuum” became his favorite technical phrase.
GALaG TIL that only 1 song used in the film Singin' in the Rain was entirely new. All of the other songs, including Singin' in the Rain, had already been used in previous films in one form or another.
OoBl7 TIL a man was told to take off his white shoes before entering a Komodo Dragon enclosure so that they weren’t mistaken for mice. The Dragon bit the shoeless man’s foot and the man lost a toe