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TIL that Sir Tim Berners-Lee – the inventor of the World Wide Web – randomly selected the colour blue for hyperlinks.

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jNdMM TIL that when a town bully & criminal kept getting away with his crimes, the town took matters into their own hands. He was shot dead in front of 40+ people but everybody claimed they saw nothing. Nobody was ever charged.
ZpKWQ TIL that gunfights were still legal in the US less than 90 years ago
Rbll TIL falling while water skiing or on a slide can cause a flood of water to enter the anus or vagina in an injury called “water ski douche”
QJQOE TIL that the town from the movie "Erin Brockovich" is still struggling from the same conditions that led to the original lawsuit.
XEWEQ TIL that the dust from Sahara Desert provides valuable phosphorous to the Amazon rainforest, allowing the latter to thrive.