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TIL the email provider "Hotmail" chose it's name because it included all the letters "HTML". Originally it styled it's name as "HoTMaiL".

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9my6 TIL Szechuan peppers cause numbness when eaten because they contain hydroxy-alpha-sanshool, a molecule that binds to cells’ tactile receptors to chemically simulate the same sensation as being vibrated at 50 hertz.
Ly59 TIL The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was the result of an FBI sting operation. FBI agents secretly supplied informant Emad Salem with bomb making materials. Despite being assured by the FBI that the real bomb was replaced with a fake, the attack was successfully carried out.
NKV8 TIL that avocados used to be eaten by giant ground sloths and were saved from extinction by humans
NXLgb TIL That Pablo Escobar's hippos are to be sterilized because they are an invasive species in Colombia
BgxAK TIL: in 1896 two trains were intentionally crashed at high speed in the United States as a public spectacle.