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TIL the the name ‘Hotmail’ was chosen as a homage to 'HTML’.

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BrPEk TIL that there's a historical period officially referred to as the Pornocracy. 904 AD-906 AD was a super corrupt time for the Papacy and later scholars called it the Pornocracy, the Hetaerocracy, or the Rule of Harlots. (The Catholic Church refers to it as the saeculum obscurum, or dark century.)
mZlE TIL that instant coffee is made by brewing fresh coffee, then evaporating the water (Or by freeze-drying it).