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TIL The two forward slashes in website URLs are useless, and Tim Berners-Lee has apologized for it’s design.

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p81Wp TIL that EVERY word you speak in your language will inevitably disappear or change their meaning in average 150 years. That's happening with every language last 1000 years. But there is a core of average 200 words that stay as a core of language and their meaning never change.
pgde TIL Hippos secrete a “sweat” that is a natural sunblock and anti-bacterial moisturizer. Even though they have skin that is 2’’ thick, they are very susceptible to sunburn and skin cracking if they stay out of the water for too long.
p8w4G TIL pieces of Skylab were scattered around a part of Western Australia after its reentry into Earth. As a joke, the local government then fined NASA $400 for littering. It went unpaid for 30 years until a Californian DJ raised funds to pay the fine.
Elrw TIL Richard Nixon cancelled the last three Apollo missions and did not fund any successor program, effectively ending NASA’s plan for a 100 person space station
j6ZEE TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis.