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

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koO4 TIL that there is a feature length anime movie based on the music of Daft Punk. It contains no dialogue or sound effects and was called “the best animated movie made in 2003.”
XEaj TIL that in the German version of Die Hard, all the terrorists are given English names.
ne0RY TIL about SOLO-TREC, a submarine that NASA invented that can basically generate infinite energy.
oBmvK The only sculpture on the Moon, this statuette and plaque were secretly left by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971 as a memorial to those who “made the ultimate contribution” to the exploration of space.
xwOo TIL painter Bob Ross, a Florida native, had never seen snow or mountains that he went on to so frequently depict until he was posted to Alaska during his service in the United States Air Force.