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TIL the Popsicle was originally called the Epsicle ice pop after its inventor Frank Epperson

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d8Qn8 TIL that Linus Torvalds, the creator and principal developer of Linux, first met his wife Tove while running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students in 1993. He instructed the course attendees to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date
m1E4p TIL the band name NSYNC is a play on the last letter of each of the original band members names: JustiN, ChriS, JoeY, JasoN, and JC.
gr66X TIL that the children’s song “Do Your Ears Hang Low?” is a sanitized version of “Do Your Balls Hang Low?”, which was popular with British soldiers in WWI. General Douglas Haig once heard a column of soldiers singing it and went to berate their commander, only to find the commander singing along.
gXVA TIL that no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was burned in a fire
VVY8 TIL that modern hospitals have rounded walls instead of sharp corners to deter the build-up of dirt and germs.