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TIL The area code (321) 3… 2… 1… is neither arbitrary nor inconsequential. It was assigned to Cape Canaveral Florida to honor the space program.

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Z8YQa TIL about a species of human that grew no larger than a modern 3-year-old child and lived on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000 years ago. These humans lived alongside Homo sapiens. They manufactured sophisticated stone tools, hunted elephants, and more, all with a brain only 1/3 the size of ours.
D9lJ TIL the town of Why, Arizona was originally to be named “Y” because two major highways, State Routes 85 and 86, originally intersected in a Y-intersection but the state requires at least 3 letters in its city names.
NQ76 TIL Nearly 37% of purchased Steam games are never played.
OoaPR TIL the word Hello became popular after Thomas Edison suggested its use when answering the phone. Alexander Graham Bell, his competitor, preferred Ahoy.
5V5rr TIL the board game Clue is called Cluedo outside of the US because it’s a pun with the game Ludo, which in the US is known as Parcheesi so the pun wouldn’t work.