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TIL the Dewey Decimal system reserves 999 for history of "extraterrestrial worlds"

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8eBGG TIL There was a competing standard to the World Wide Web (www) called gopher
wWr6 TIL Tara Strong, voice actress on Powerpuff Girls, Rugrats, Teen Titans, Hello Kitty, Ultimate Spider Man, Princess Mononoke, and many more, was given a visa into the US as an “Alien of Extraordinary Ability.”
DQVxr TIL that in 1958, a plan called Project Oilsand proposed using nuclear bombs to exploit oil from Alberta's Athabasca tar sands. The concept involved the underground detonation of up to 100 nuclear explosives to create intense heat; hypothetically liquefying the oil and making it easier to extract.
JYE1 TIL that the proper way to use a bobby pin is with the ridges facing down - flat side up.
QJpEE TIL when the original director of mega-flop The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) was fired and replaced, he secretly returned to set disguised as a mutant dog and worked for the rest of production as an extra.