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TIL That Hotmail was named Hotmail because it abbreviates to HTML.

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nQG7 TIL of Witold Pilecki, a Polish Army officer who volunteered to get imprisoned in Auschwitz to gather intelligence and escape
Egd70 TIL Mao Zedong's successor Hua Guofeng tried to set up his personality cult. New songs and dances in praise of Chairman Hua were performed and a national campaign saturated China with posters showing Hua sitting with Mao. Hua even altered his appearance and calligraphy to resemble Mao
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