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TIL Linus Torvald originally wanted to name his OS Freax but it was an administrator from one of FTP server from which the OS was hosted who put the files under under a folder named "Linux".

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M4Jm TIL That Dennis “Chip” Wilson named his company Lululemon because “Japanese peoples’ inability to pronounce the letter "L”, and the extra effort they would have to make to pronounce the name" and “It’s funny to watch them try and say it,”
xVgrg TIL the Demon core, a fissile core that went supercritical twice in the 1940s causing the deaths of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin.
VM1J8 TIL of the 'Cannonball Run.' An illegal road race from New York to Los Angeles held five times during the 1970's. The record time was 32 hrs and 51 minutes.
78opX TIL you can die eating a diet of rabbits without another source of fat because they are so lean. It's called protein poisoning, aka Rabbit Starvation.
GYAV1 Proving that it still has power, over the past few years, Mount St. Helens has had "a baby volcano growing in its crater," says Stephanie Grocke, a volcanologist at the Smithsonian Institution and a National Geographic explorer.