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TIL when Tim Berners-Lee proposed what later became the WWW, his superior noted it as „vague but exciting“

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X0BvE TIL that Son Heung-min, captain of both the South Korean national team and Tottenham Hotspur, completed basic training with the Republic of Korea Marine Corps—finishing in the top five out of 157 trainees. He also learned German by watching episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants
R9P6 TIL of the Battle of Long Tan, where 106 Australian troops beat back and defeated a Vietcong force of ~2000
D1W5Y TIL: The light atop a Hollywood record company building has been quietly blinking-out messages in Morse code since first being turned-on in 1956 --by Morse's own granddaughter. (The default message is one word, but it once revealed an album release date: “Katy Perry. Prism. October 22, 2013.")
v1g4R TIL There is no US Army base named for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the US, Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, 16th Chief of the Army, and champion of Civil Rights.
b6yP0 TIL The Japanese Spider Crab can weigh 40lbs and live for 100 years. It has a leg span of 13 feet.