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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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7bOb TIL of Johnathan R Davis who, in a well documented incident, single-handedly killed 11 armed bandits who ambushed him in 1854. He killed 7 while dual-wielding revolvers, and then finished the remaining 4 with a Bowie knife. He sustained only 2 slight flesh wounds.
LYQ9 TIL about Tilly Smith who, at age 10, helped save her family and hundreds of tourists in Thailand from the 2004 tsunami by recognizing warning signs of a tsunami that she had learned in her geography class two weeks earlier.
ANWNo TIL James Cameron would use a nail gun to nail the film crew's cell phones to a wall in retaliation for unwanted ringing during the production of Avatar.
N7JaQ TIL Futurama's gag about French being an undecipherable dead language was replaced with German being the dead language in the French dubs.
pYP0Q Today I learned that one of the reasons why Walt Disney decided to build Disney World in the eastern US is because only 5% of Disneyland's visitors came from east of the Mississippi River.