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TIL that the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1989 at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

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5YKvQ TIL Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) is often added to toothpaste to make it foam better. I can increase the rate of mouth ulcers by almost a third to those susceptible.
woXRJ TIL about death flights. Captives would be loaded into a plane, stripped, and pushed out over the ocean. These account for 1500-2000 of the 20k-30k estimated to have been disappeared by the Argentine military between 1976 and 1983 in the Argentine Dirty War.
OoY4e TIL Panthers are not a species, Panther is just the name given to any melanistic (dark or black) big cat e.g. black jaguars.
P1elZ TIL That the musical guest for the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live was the punk band 'Fear'. Invited at the urging of John Belushi the band would see their performance cut short and would be banned from SNL after they and their invited 'dancers' wound up destroying part of the set.
E1neV TIL that originally all peppers used in Tabasco sauce were grown on one 3-mile long, 2.5-mile wide island (Avery Island) in Louisiana. Today, all peppers are still picked by hand, and much of the salt used in Tabasco production comes from the same island, which is also a salt dome.