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TIL An initial name considered for Safari was iBrowse. This was truly a missed trick.

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EgoY0 TIL that despite the popular belief that the USSR possesed hundreds of ICBMs and was winning the arms race, in reality they possesed only four by 1961.
J1mN8 TIL that algae are not plants and are protists (eukaryotes that are not plants, fungi or animals)
b6G8a TIL that the city of Melbourne in Australia was briefly known as Batmania in 1835, named after one of its founders, John Batman. It was officially renamed Melbourne in 1837 after the British Prime Minister at the time, Lord Melbourne.
jN69n TIL we call letters "uppercase" and "lowercase" because the original printing presses kept letter blocks in literal cases; since small letters were used more often, they kept them in the bottom case for easy access; thus, lowercase (and uppercase) were born.
R7pa6 TIL that four months after actress Brittany Murphy unexpectedly died at the age of 32 in her L.A. home of pneumonia and severe anemia, her widow Simon Monjack was found dead in the same home of pneumonia and severe anemia.