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TIL That the "www" prefix is just a regular subdomain with no other technical purpose, has never been a requirement and became the standard unintentionally.

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nW96d TIL During the war with Pakistan in 1971, the Indian Air Force was commanded by a Muslim; the Army Commander was a Parsi (Zoroastrian), the General Officer of the Army in Bangladesh was a Sikh, and the General flown in to negotiate the surrender of the Pakistani forces in East Bengal was Jewish.
N1RQ TIL Costco purposefully designed their store without signs to force people to wander through all the aisles and find things to buy.
GAXng TIL - Paul Reubens and Roger Stone have the exact same birthday, August 27, 1952.
awEgJ TIL Pyramids were actually built by paid workers, rather than the slaves
m1jkv TIL about US Navy gunner Loyce Deen. Killed while flying, his body was too mangled to remove from the Avenger torpedo bomber he was in. The ship's crew covered the body and buried Deen at sea, using the Avenger as his coffin. It's the only known burial at sea involving an aircraft as tomb.