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TIL that one of the early suggested names considered for Twitter was “Friendstalker.”

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E1oKW TIL that George Harrison created a film production company to fund Monty Python's Life of Brian at a cost of £3 million, because he "wanted to see the movie"—later being described by Terry Jones as "the world's most expensive cinema ticket".
4kaDJ TIL That the only 18" gun the US Navy developed, was used as ballast on a hospital ship (USS Repose), but never deployed on a battleship.
R5vo6 TIL Cheddar cheese is orange because they add color from the annatto fruit
lowAN TIL flies find it hard to land on striped surfaces, & zebras suffer far less from flies, which carry deadly diseases. Zebra stripes are more pronounced in environments that favour horseflies
4XaDb TIL if you can compress the earth into the size of a ping pong ball, it became a black hole.