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TIL that in June 2009, a State Department official mailed Jack Dorsey with a request to delay scheduled maintenance of Twitter’s global network, which would have cut off service while Iranians were using Twitter to swap information about protests around Tehran. Twitter complied with the request.

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P1xBn TIL that Kentucky Bluegrass, a common grass planted in suburban lawns in the North America, is not from Kentucky, and not even native to North America. It comes from Europe, North Asia, and Northern Africa and was imported by the Spanish Empire.
GAym5 TIL Type O Negative's title song "Bloody Kisses", about a woman who committed suicide, it’s a veiled tribute to Peter Steele's 17-year-old cat Venus: "No one wants to hear about a guy who's 6' 8" with long black hair and fangs crying about his f**kin' cat, so I had to make it extremely metaphoric."
x6Jv1 TIL that the n in 7-ELEVEn is lowercase because the President's wife thought that all caps looked too aggressive and harsh. She thought the change made the logo appear to be more graceful.
5YbDn TIL that the Andromeda Galaxy is on its way to collide with the Milky Way Galaxy and is predicted to occur 4.5 billion years from now
rNk6d TIL that in Speed 2 the scene where the ship crashes into the island was made with a non-animated partial boat crashing into the real island, and was the most expensive stunt ever filmed at $25M in 1997.