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TIL about the colour in CSS called "rebeccapurple", which was named after the daughter of CSS standards pioneer Eric Meyer, who lost her life to cancer on her 6th birthday.

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dgeE TIL the Average Costco customer makes six figures
KOVE9 TIL in the event of victory in WWII the Nazis planned to host every Olympic Games that followed in a stadium that would seat 405’000 people
awOrZ TIL about the Battle for Castle Itter, where in the closing days of WWII a small group of Americans, French prisoners, a surrendered SS officer, and several Wehrmacht soldiers fortified an Austrian castle and held off a force of marauding SS soldiers.
7rXnZ TIL the rocket in Jules Verne’s 1865 story From the Earth to the Moon launched from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean because of Verne’s calculations. In 1969, Apollo 11 took off from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean.
Oo6pe TIL Bicycle Playing Card Company joined forces with American and British intelligence agencies to create a special deck of cards, specifically created to help allied prisoners of war escape from German POW camps.