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

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x6yjB TIL that in the UK, the number of women (103,575) who applied to study law at the undergraduate level in 2022 was nearly double the number of men (51,865) who did.
nWred TIL that there is an open-source Python package called "Dulwich", and why it's named after an area in London: It's a pure Python version of Git, and the name comes from a Monty Python sketch, where the characters Mr. and Mrs. Git live and occasionally attend to cocktail parties.
P18KZ TIL Jalapeños and Bell Peppers are the same species
0wBbA TIL the Irish Myth of "Stingy Jack” about a man who tricked the devil and therefore kept out of hell but is not welcome in heaven. He wanders the earth with a Lantern and Halloween is his time of year.
QJ5l9 TIL Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak is the cover model for Pulp's 1998 album 'This is Hardcore'.