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

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7rd7P TIL: The Original G-mail Was Garfield Mail
OGbRe TIL the 1972 song "Garden Party", which has the lyrics, "you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself", is about the singer being booed at Madison Square Garden when he played "Honky Tonk Women" as a country song.
VMRKm TIL on august 10, 2018, an airplane was stolen from Sea–Tac Airport in Washington by 29-y-old Richard Russell, a ground service agent with no piloting experience. He flew around for 1h15min, kept radio contact, did a succesfull barrel roll, then crashed on an island purposely, killing only himself
P1mXE TIL at age 20, Pope Benedict IX was the youngest Pope ever elected, and served as Pope on three different occasions. The first time he was overthrown, 2nd time he resigned, the third time he was overthrown again.
MoXB TIL David Eckert sued his local police force for $1.6 million after being forced to undergo “multiple digital penetrations and 3 enemas” on an invalad warrant and without finding the drugs they were looking for.