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TIL about PoE, Power over Ethernet.

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D1oBD TIL M. Night Shyamalan was offered to direct Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, he dropped out to direct The Village instead. It was his second offer to direct Harry Potter films, the first one was The Philosopher's Stone, and the third one was The Goblet of Fire.
P1moG TIL in the 1952 Texas gubernatorial election, Allan Shivers went against... Allan Shivers
N7eoN TIL that The word "PEZ" comes from the German word for peppermint—PfeffErminZ
1aMer TIL that there is a blind cave beetle named after Adolf Hitler, Anophthalmus hitleri. Nazi memorabilia collectors willing to pay up to £1200 for a specimen are putting it at risk of extinction.
d8YG9 TIL How a Man licking the back of a stamp 11 years ago lead to the Capture of the killer in the Largest Murder Investigation in Italy.