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TIL Twitter originally launched with the name Twttr. Later the company decided to change the name to Twitter but that domain name was already in use by someone else so the company paid $7,500 to purchase the name.

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0xV5 TIL there’s a domestic cat breed called the Pixie-bob that looks like a miniature Bobcat, and has a personality/behavior that’s often described as being dog-like.
aWP9 TIL that the cast and crew of Borat nearly started a riot during the filming of the rodeo scene where Borat sings the (made up) Kazakhstan national Anthem to the tune of the American national anthem.
rW6o TIL that a program such as PRISM will probably never actually detect terrorists because of “Bonferroni’s Principle”
1algX TIL Cassandra Peterson revealed that she was scalded on over 35% of her body in a kitchen accident when she was one and a half years old. She said that she was teased at school over her scars and jokingly added that her Elvira costume "showed only the good bits"
OGoj6 TIL about the "Moranbong band", the first all-girls DPRK-Pop band of North Korea, formed by the state, as a response to the success of South Korean music all over the world.