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TIL the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, has a dedicated team of people called the "String Similarity Panel" to check if applications for new "generic top-level domains" (gTLDs, e.g.: .com, .org, .net) are similar to existing top-level domains (TLDs).

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R7RMl TIL Bill Murray auditioned for the role of Sulley in Monsters, Inc., but the director, Pete Docter, said that when they decided to offer it to Murray, they were unable track down the elusive actor because he had replaced his team of agents with a toll free 1-800 number. They took that to mean "no".
8yG4 TIL the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán was the largest city in the Americas with over 200,000 people. It was built on a man-made island in the middle of a lake - connected to shore by 3 causeways. It contained huge pyramids, floating gardens, aqueducts and canals. It was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521
8eRx4 TIL about London’s Forty Elephants, an all-female gang of shoplifters
Ye4Z TIL A 3500 year old Egyptian temple dedicated to Montu - God of strength and war - was disassembled in the 19th century to build a sugar factory
5ARr TIL There is a mysterious hole in Nova Scotia. Excavation started in 1795, but to this day what is at the bottom of the pit remains unknown.