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TIL that Singapore was forcibly expelled from Malaysia becoming an independent country against their wishes.

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v1YD TIL that cats have a non-fatal terminal velocity of around 60mph, and when falling (after relaxing and orienting themselves) they merely ‘parachute’ to earth like a squirrel.
4Kda TIL that a Googolplex (1 followed by a googol zeroes) can’t be written down because it would take up more space than there is in the known universe.
monv TIL that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965) was rejected at first by CBS: they didn’t like that amateur children were doing the voices, they didn’t like the “anti-consumerism” theme of the plot – and they didn’t like the music.
epg5D TIL Breakaway song was written by Avril but decided to give to Kelly
8aJQa TIL the man responsible for cookies is Lou Montulli. He developed one of the earliest Web browsers, Lynx, in 1991, and was responsible for a variety of Web innovations including the blink tag, server push and client pull, and HTTP proxying.