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TIL the TLD for commercial websites in the Cook islands is .co.ck

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5VMRr TIL Of the Columbus Egg. Columbus' egg refers to a discovery or amazing idea that seems simple or easy after the fact.
6EWP8 TIL Zebra stripes are actually white, not black. It was thought previously that zebras were white animals with black stripes since some zebras have white underbellies. Embryological evidence, however, shows that the animal's background color is black and the white stripes and bellies are additions.
Lg89 TIL there is a non-profit dedicated to lobbying politicians to double NASA’s budget to 1¢ per tax dollar.
8Ab8 TIL that Hitler never regarded the Chinese and Japanese as inferior to the Aryans. He thought that “their past history was superior to our own”
LkwEd TIL many laugh tracks were made by the Laugh Box machine developed by sound engineer Charles Douglass in 1953.