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TIL that under the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry, port 666 is (by default) reserved for a service called “mdqs”, alongside Id Software’s game DOOM.

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LkZRv TIL the stereotype of Native Americans saying "how" as a greeting comes from the Anglicization of the Lakota word "háu", which was used by men to greet other men.
W7pmL TIL about Eugene Lazowski, a Polish doctor who saved 8,000 people from being sent to Nazi death camps by injecting them with a solution that mimics a typhus infection.
y7yM TIL Since 2011 A 60 year old Australian man has been paid by local councils in Sydney to have sex with prostitutes in illegal brothels to gather evidence so they can be shut down.