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TIL on 30 1993, CERN opened the World Wide Web, "a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents," when it established the very first URL, http://info.cern.ch. It's still there.

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Wk678 TIL when Halle Berry won a Worst Actor Razzie award for her role in Catwoman, she showed up in person to collect the award. She spoke while holding her Academy Award from Monster's Ball in one hand and the Razzie in the other.
4XEMJ TIL that RH null is a blood so rare, only 40 people in the world have it. It's a universal donor among many people with other rare blood types, and as such has been called the "golden blood" because its life saving capability is enormous.
XERQ8 TIL a man once dared John P. Parker, an Underground Railroad conductor, to help his slaves escape. The man slept with the enslaved couple's baby in his room, knowing they wouldn't leave him behind. Parker snuck in, grabbed the baby & led everyone to freedom while the enslaver shot after them.
J1RPl TIL When Bobby Womack was 25, he had sex with his 17 year old stepdaughter. She then married her step-Uncle. For this ordeal, Bobby Womack was shot by his wife, who later divorced him. His stepdaughter never spoke to her mother again.
M7OyB TIL the UK equivalent of the dollar store is called "Poundland".