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TIL (shamefully late) that the 'Home' key on a keyboard instantly brings you to the top of the webpage that you're browsing.

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6E7EJ TIL Computer Programmer Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing using the "@" symbol to send emails and being the first person to send an email in 1971
LplV TIL that the Cult Awareness Network, which criticized Scientology, among other cults, was undermined, sued and bought out by the Church of Scientology
dDWR7 TIL that still being a desert, the Sechura region of Peru has been effected at times by flooding and storms from the ocean. It is a coastal desert.
OEAY TIL In 1960, Slinky inventor Richard James left his wife and their six children to join a cult down in Bolivia. His wife, Betty, took over and turned the failing company completely around. In 2001, Betty was inducted into the Toy Industry Hall of Fame.
XQP8 TIL that on the way to his inauguration, President Franklin Pierce’s only living child was crushed to death in front of him and his wife in a train derailment. Pierce descended into alcoholism, the First Lady into depression, and the country into violence.