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

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WkV6X TIL 50 Cent challenged Floyd Mayweather to read one full page of a 'Harry Potter' book out loud without starting and stopping or messing up. If Floyd Mayweather accomplished this, 50 Cent agreed to donate $750,000 to a charity of Mayweather’s choice. Floyd Mayweather ultimately declined the offer.
xYx5 TIL that in 2014, Betty White was awarded the Guiness World Record for “Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (Female),” with a 1939 debut.
OlQa TIL J. R. R. Tolkien began work on The Hobbit one day early in the 1930s, when he was marking School papers. He found a blank page. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
LQ7Dv TIL about ShipGoo001, novel bacteria and archaea, accidentally found in the rudder housing of a research ship.
v1pV4 TIL, the first animated motion picture film was the ‘Humorous Phases of Funny Faces’ (1906) - J. Stuart Blackton. He was the OG of the chalkboard animation that we love to watch today.