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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.

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eRxD TIL that there are tiny bugs closely related to spiders living in the pores of your face, which crawl about your face in the dark to mate.
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