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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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Yp9v7 TIL : Another factor for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest was the death of Chinese reformist Hu Yaobang and rapid market economic reform. and at their last stand, the protester sings the international socialist anthem to protest the Chinese leadership for betraying their original ideas.
09bA Today I learned, the Inuit people make traditional sunglasses from caribou horns to protect themselves from sun blindness.
0wm9L TIL carrots are orange because of the dutch who used it to honor their leader in the battle for independence
E19Gp TIL that on Sunday, February 7, 1932, US Adm. Harry E. Yarnell launched a successful surprise "attack" against Pearl Harbor using two aircraft carriers in a naval exercise. He "destroyed" every ship in port and every airfield nearby. The US made no effort to safeguard Hawaii from aircraft attack
Lpo9 TIL some Canadian police departments issue ‘positive tickets’ thanking citizens for doing something good.