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TIL that the phasing out of IE6 began when a small group of devs at YouTube went rogue and put up a banner without permission claiming that they were dropping support soon

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R5ZZ7 TIL during Michael Jackson’s worldwide HIStory tour of ‘96-‘97, he traveled for over a year and performed 82 concerts live for almost 4.5 million people, but despite selling out 98% of the available tickets, the tour would only break even due MJ’s notorious lavish spending on excesses.
GYbb7 TIL nuclear physicist Nicholas Kemmer suggested the atomic symbol "Pu" for plutonium deliberately as a joke because it resembled "P.U." (an expression of disgust at a foul smell), yet no one objected, and it made it onto the periodic table.
XExLR TIL in 1900, a sealed cave was discovered in China's Gansu province containing 1,100 scrolls and 15,000 Buddhist texts. Believed to have been sealed around 1002, the last recorded date, the cave contained lost texts and the earliest dated printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra printed in 868.
0wKKL TIL that parts of Anne Frank's diary were censored because some of the entries described her vagina.
AeDw TIL that truly healthy coral reefs have a biomass made almost entire of top predators