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TIL that Hotmail used to be written HoTMaiL because it was designed to include the letters HTML.

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eEoE TIL Mexican shamans began to use Coca-Cola in their religious rituals to heal worshippers. When Pepsi discovered this, they offered commissions to shamans to use Pepsi instead. When Coke began paying too, rival religious groups were formed based on which soft drink they used.
NXdGN TIL Sloth babies usually survive if they lose their grip on their mom and fall but sometimes, the mother sloth doesn’t want to go on the ground to pick the baby up because she'd risk being seen by predators.
xvXk TIL that Bill Murray had no scripted lines in the movie Caddyshack. He improvised everything. “With the Dalai Lama scene, they just sort of tossed me in there – there wasn’t much of anything. I just took it and ran away with it…Improvising about golf was easy for me.”
7r1p7 TIL about a “squirrel king” which is when a group of squirrels get their tails tied together
7rRGr TIL Bill Gates founded a nonprofit ed-tech initiative that created peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print. Instructors are free to use, adapt, and remix the content of those textbooks.