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TIL : Bob Marley’s dad was white
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TIL devious cheesemakers of the 17th century coloured their cheese orange to pass their skim-milk products off as the full-fat, naturally yellowish-orange cheese that Londoners had come to expect, starting the tradition of dying cheese orange.
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TIL that the "achoo!" sound when you sneeze is influenced by culture. Without the cultural influence, the sneeze would just sound like a sharp release of air.
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TIL That Hotmail was named Hotmail because it abbreviates to HTML.
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TIL of a program called SoftRAM95, claiming to double your RAM without a hardware upgrade. It sold 600,000 copies at $79.95 and did absolutely nothing.
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TIL that Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite is the same guy who played Laszlo in Real Genius.