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TIL Hotmail was named after HTML and its original logo was ‘HoTMaiL’

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Z8k7R TIL The original Hamilton actors that played John Laurens/Phillip Hamilton and Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds are engaged in real life
neJLb TIL that during the Great Depression, the Hershey Company marketed Mr. Goodbar as a "tasty lunch" because the peanuts it contained provided added nutritional value. During the 1950s and '60s it was marketed as an "quick energy" bar.
rWNx TIL During the Cold War the US considered airdropping enormous condoms labeled “Medium” onto the Soviets, to demoralize them against an anatomically superior American Army.
E4QP TIL there are no known cases of elevators free-falling and killing the passengers inside
GKRG TIL in WWI the British dug tunnels 120 feet underground to lay 22 mines beneath German trenches. Exploded at 3AM, the mines took out 10,000 German soldiers and an entire town in a “detonation now known as history’s deadliest non-nuclear, man-made explosion.”