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TIL that Stephen Hawking thinks it would be a bad idea to talk to aliens

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j6ZdE TIL That the "www" prefix is just a regular subdomain with no other technical purpose, has never been a requirement and became the standard unintentionally.
nDjr TIL in the famous bath salt cannibalism case, no evidence of bath salts was ever found
nWy07 TIL that Phantom Islands appeared on maps but later found not to exist. They often stem from early sailors' reports, navigational errors, or deliberate fabrications, and some lingered on maps for centuries before being debunked.
dE0E TIL statues of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow are still on cathedrals all over Germany
MN0A TIL the Federal Tax Code is 73,954 pages long. One hundred years ago it was only 400 pages.