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TIL the actor who played ruthless hunter Van Pelt in Jumanji also played the boy Alan's father.

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Z6go TIL in 2009 a pigeon named Winston raced Telkom, South Africa’s largest ISP, to see who could deliver 4GB of data to a location 60 miles away the fastest. By the time Winston arrived with the 4GB flash drive, Telkom had transmitted only 4% of the data.
GYmG5 TIL, on the day of bombing on Hiroshima, within the first three seconds 1000s of people were incinerated as the temperature at the burst-point reached 60 million degrees centigrade- 10000 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
yQ8Bv TIL of Hanlon's Razor, which is to not attribute to malice that which is more easily explained by stupidity. It helps us avoid paranoia and ideology by not generally assuming that bad results are the fault of a bad actor. The explanation most likely to be right is the one with the least intent.
kOMD7 TIL of serial killer Joe Metheny, who minced his victims into hamburgers and sold them at his own BBQ stand.
wLer7 TIL Berlin is the only capital city in Europe that is a drag on its country's economy