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TIL when Internet Explorer 4 was released, drunk Microsoft employees dumped a huge IE logo in the fountain in front of Netscape’s building.

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b97va TIL you are a Jr. if you're named after your dad, but a II (second) if you take the name from someone else in the family.
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