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TIL among the official HTTP client error response codes (like "404: Not Found"), status code "418: I'm a teapot" is the code used to indicate that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot.

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groYb TIL that behind Mount Rushmore, there is a room that was intended to house America’s most important documents and give info about the carving of Mount Rushmore. However, construction on it was stopped when the government ordered the sculptor to focus on carving out the president’s faces.
9w6v6 TIL of Aeschylus, an ancient Greek tragedian, who was killed after an eagle carrying a tortoise, mistook Aeschylus' bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the reptile's shell. Apparently, Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avert a prophecy that he would be killed "by a falling object".
KGQG TIL that in 1996, a deranged man stormed into a New Zealand radio station, took the manager hostage and issued one demand – that the station play Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog.
nyLY TIL that when Charlie Chaplin received his honorary Oscar, he received a 12-minute standing ovation - the longest in Oscar history.
4OrR TIL that the “Hokey Pokey” was originally called “Hokey Cokey” and possibly inspired by Canadian miners taking cocaine to cheer themselves up