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TIL that 11% of Americans think that HTML is an STD.

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pYa8N TIL that there are only 420 Blobfish left in the world
4XAxX TIL that scientists put horses in black-and-white striped costumes to try and find out why zebras are stripy. It seems that the stripes make flies less likely to land on them.
xrDb TIL that in 1953, Coca Cola attempted to persuade the US Treasury to mint a 7.5 cent coin; a can of Coke had been a nickel since 1886 and needed to be raised due to inflation, but they felt a dime was too much.
gMOeW TIL Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, did not live to see the first human to land on the moon.
JYyE4 TIL in The Italian Job (2003) the studio had to build custom electric Mini Coopers for the scenes in the LA subway because combustion engines would be too dangerous in the enclosed spaces.