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TIL Google purchased the domain name Gmail.com from Garfield Comics.

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evY5 TIL that Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro are the only two actors to win an Oscar for playing the same character. The first played Vito Corleone in The Godfather; the second played Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II.
NXvK8 TIL some (native/wild) animals are more common in the suburbs than in rural wild areas (at least in N America). After noticing this myself, I wondered if suburban animals were just "easier to spot" or there really were more so I did some research. Depending on the species, there really are more.
YpEe7 TIL That there's an Irish translation of the Book of Genesis from the 11th Century that incorporates apochryphal New Testament texts and the lineage of Irish Kings.
jNerj TIL about the concept of 'invented tradition', in which something believed or touted to be ancient is actually modern, such as ancestral Scottish clan-tartans, which are actually a 19th-century creation.
VMj4k TIL: Steven Spielberg's daughter is a porn actress