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

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QJmA9 TIL that the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history occurred on June 8, 1917 when fire broke out in the Speculator Mine in Butte, Montana. 168 miners were killed due to the unsafe conditions, spurring one of the first successful unionizations of workers in the US.
R77Gl Drip, drip, drip
B74e TIL that the Nazis, if victorious, planned to drain the Mediterranean Sea to create Atlantropa - a giant continent composed of Europe and Africa.
YpYJ7 TIL How Humans Would Look If We Had Various Animals’ Bone Structures
MeaYb TIL there are two competing symbols of medicine in the US: the Rod of Asclepius (a staff with a single snake coiled around it) and the Caduceus (with two snakes and a pair of wings). The two are completely unrelated ancient symbols.