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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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VrR0 TIL when Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, ‘100 Authors Against Einstein’, he replied: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.”
D1ywg TIL that Bangladesh has a Floating market just for selling Guavas!
vPpR TIL that praising a child’s intelligence is counterproductive and ultimately makes them dumber. However, praising the process of problem solving makes a child smarter.
pYxrO TIL of Nigel Richards, a tournament-Scrabble player. In 2015, despite not speaking French, Richards won the French World Scrabble Championships, after reportedly spending nine weeks studying the French dictionary. He won it again in 2018, and multiple duplicate titles from 2016.
Eny7 TIL That the act of creating a company for the sole purpose of suing other companies for patent violation of patents you own, is patented.