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TIL Mozilla is originally a portmanteau of "Mosaic Killer", the dominant browser at the time. Mosaic was then renamed to Netscape, which forced Microsoft to in turn create Internet Explorer.

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V57p TIL there is a correlation to long life spans and intelligence, and it is just as strong as the correlation between smoking and early death
Kv5w TIL Sam Jackson had the same amount of screen time in Pulp Fiction as John Travolta yet was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar while Travolta got nominated for Best Actor.
xG80 TIL Kit Kat is so popular in Japan that it is sold at high-end department stores, Kit Kat only specialty shops, and post offices. Nearly every region has a signature flavor sold only in that part of the country, and there are nearly 300 flavors of Kit Kat.
XEnok TIL a study conducted in 2019 in the United States found that almost half of people reporting they had a food allergy are wrong.
e0aXJ TIL in 1860s Missouri, “Snowflake” was a word used to describe people who were against the abolition of slavery.