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TIL: the internet has its own internal weather and you can observe it

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X7bk TIL the Sir Isaac Newton quote “If I have seen further than others, it is only because I was standing on the shoulders of giants,” in its original context, was an insult to Robert Hooke, a short and mildly hunchbacked scientist who claimed Newton stole his work from.
DPOp TIL that Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, after serving two terms as President of the United States, sought and received his reinstatement as a General of the Army. Ike believed that history would hardly remember his service as President, but would never forget that he commanded the D-day invasion.
GovG TIL that when planning the 9/11 attacks, terrorists initially wanted to target nuclear installations in the United States but decided against it fearing things would “get out of control”
EoaP TIL that CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
ne8Db TIL about the goldrush town of Chicken, Alaska. It was to be named Ptarmigan but they couldn't agree on the spelling. So, to avoid future embarrassment they settled on Chicken. Bullet dodged.