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TIL the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented by a single person.

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0dpdj TIL the song Leave Me Alone by Michael Jackson was a response to the media after a series of negative rumors about the singer, such as MJ sleeping in an oxygen chamber to slow his aging and buying the bones of the "Elephant Man". He was often referred to as "wacko jacko", a term he did not like.
7roL7 TIL That J. R. R. Tolkien began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s, when he was marking School papers. He found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.”
5YK9P TIL a pony in Cornwall, England named "Fat Boy" broke out of his stable into a nearby garden with another pony, got drunk from munching on fallen fermenting apples, and fell into a swimming pool. Fire crews spent 2 hrs building a set of hay steps in the pool & hoisted Fat Boy out with harnesses.
oBrrL TIL That people born blind use the same facial expressions as sighted people when expressing emotions, meaning that our facial expressions are innate and not learned behavior.
yx4l TIL There is a bar in London called “The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town” that you can access through a fridge after announcing “I am here to see the Mayor”