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TIL Python, the programming language, was named after Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

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0w5Yp TIL: There exists a health problem that affects thumbs due to excessively playing video games. It's call Nintendonitis.
B45b TIL Isaac Asimov’s favorite short story that he wrote was “The Last Question”, an interesting take on the end of the universe
j6dAR TIL there are neighboring African tribes that are more genetically diverse to one another than any 2 countries of the 141 countries outside of Africa are to each other.
M7ea0 TIL That the United Fruit Company spent over half a million dollars back in 1950 (almost 6 million in 2022) to convince lawmakers and the American public that the Guatemalan government needed to be overthrown. President Truman eventually authorized the CIA to effect a Guatemalan coup d'état in 1952.
kJdmd TIL that the brothers that founded American restaurant chain Friendly's. brothers S. Prestley Blake and Curtis Blake, lived to 106, and 102 respectively. With S Prestley dying in 2021.