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TIL The first ever webpage, made in 1990 by CERN, is still functioning today and you can browse it here…

Read more line-mode.cern.ch

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v1oKB TIL Bounty is a candy bar made by Mars and sold in Canada and Europe made with coconut covered with milk chocolate. If this sounds familiar to Americas, it is similar to the Mounds bar except Mounds is made with dark chocolate.
DQQP TIL that due to the high ratio of atmospheric density to surface gravity on Saturn’s moon Titan, humans could fly by simply strapping on a pair of wings.
mxlYR TIL that a “fossil word” is a word that is no longer used in general speech but remains in use because it is part of an idiom. For example, amok as in “run amok”, or turpitude as in “moral turpitude”. There are many other examples.
OGbG6 TIL In Chinese mythology weretigers also known as tiger demons exist but unlike werewolves (who are humans who can shapeshift into a wolf) they are actually tigers who shapeshift into humans and if you are killed by one of them you aren't able to reincarnate and they will enslave your spirit
0noR TIL the word “plankton” is plural and “plankter” is the individual noun.