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TIL That Robin Williams was an avid online gamer

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R5jr8 TIL In 1998 the E.L.F. burned down the Vail Ski Resort causing $12 million in damages.
Ojg1 TIL: There is a “Buy Nothing Day” (BND), an international day of protest against consumerism. The first BND was organized in Canada in 1992 “as a day for society to examine the issue of over-consumption.”
nWZrb TIL that an Ottoman Prince and around 600 Ottoman troops loyal to him helped defend Constantinople suring the siege of 1453
woPoo TIL that, on August 27, 1853, Abraham Lincoln led a ceremony by the railroad tracks in Lincoln, Illinois to mark the founding of the new town named after him. Lincoln "christened" the railroad trackside with watermelon juice.
BgdMy TIL that after an accident on June 13, 1922, Charles Osborne began to hiccup nonstop. The condition persisted for more than six decades, only ending in 1990, a full 68 years after it began.