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TIL Sun Microsystems was named after Stanford University Network

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8eG04 TIL when the Beach Boys released God Only Knows in 1966, it was taboo to reference "God" in a song's title, and that they were worried that the song may not receive airplay
aZNA TIL that Velociraptors were roughly the size of turkeys.
WRJN TIL Einstein wanted to be cremated and his ashes scattered with his brain in his head to “discourage idolaters” but the Doctor performing the autopsy put the brain in formaldehyde and kept it for himself.
Yp11Z TIL the Pentagon was built in less than a year and a half and was only supposed to be temporary
ZpRJY TIL that the release of A Goofy Movie had to be delayed from Thanksgiving 1994 to April 1995 due to the monitor that they were using to capture the film's animation having a single dead pixel, forcing them to recapture three-quarters of the film again with a non-defective monitor.