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TIL that port 666 is reserved by the IANA, the official body that oversees IP address allocations on the internet, for playing 'Doom'.

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Xka8 TIL that when he was thirty years old, Mark Twain wrote an illustrated children’s book called “Advice to Little Girls”. Lost and unknown for generations, it has been rediscovered. It is a charming and irreverent little book.
ANb5x TIL: The AquaDom was a 25-meter (82-foot) tall cylindrical aquarium located in the lobby of a Berlin Hotel. In 2022, the Aquadom suddenly burst and collapsed, releasing approximately 1 million liters of water and 1,500 fish. There were no human casualties although most of the fish didn't survive.
nW4o9 TIL Stephern Hawking and his daughter, Lucy, published 5 children’s fiction books together
VMvb8 TIL about the Bouba-Kiki effect, which is a universal, inherent and nonarbitrary bias found in most adults to ascribe visual shapes to speech sounds.
6E4jX TIL Yugoslav people still exist. Most of them were of mixed descent, being unable to identify as part of any specific ethnicity. Thus they chose to identify as “Yugoslavs”, and stuck with it.