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TIL that Lynx is the oldest browser still maintained as of 2024. The project started in 1992.

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nEEd TIL that when she was young Marilyn Monroe’s mentally unstable mother tried to kidnap her from her foster parents by stuffing her in a duffle bag.
ADYXg TIL NBA player Horace Grant kept wearing goggles, even after getting LASIK, just to make kids with glasses feel better about their eyewear
Z8ybD TIL that in 1862 President Lincoln had to politely decline an offer from the king of Siam to send the United States a herd of elephants for use in the Civil War against the Confederacy.
neQKP TIL The Tidewater Pipeline was the World's first oil pipeline built in Pennsylvania and still exists today and is used for fiber optic cables.
K0R6 TIL Yao Ming is an ambassador for elephant conservation