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

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jNE6N TIL drinking alcohol makes you want to pee because for every 200 millilitres of beer you drink, your kidneys generate 320 millilitres of urine. “Breaking The Seal” is real.
GAwD5 TIL of Colin Fleming Brien, a WWII POW of the Japanese who survived his beheading, was buried alive, and dug his way out to make his way to a Japanese hospital where he recovered
1pgO TIL that Bill Hicks’s parents, worried about his behavior, took him to a psychoanalyst at age 17 but, according to Hicks, after one session the psychoanalyst informed him that “…it’s them, not you.”
xVZJB TIL HR Giger, who designed the Xenomorphs in Aliens, designed an unused batmobile for Batman Forever
EgkxW TIL the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by James Bond author Ian Flemming, and was adapted into a movie with a screenplay written by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author Roal Dahl.