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TIL that in the making of the South Park episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” with Blizzard’s help, a random unknown character joined the closed server and started killing people, making the Blizzard people use the “death touch” to get rid of him. (at 3:37)

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Ywdx TIL there is enough water in Lake Superior to flood the entire landmasses of North and South America to a depth of 1 foot. It contains over 3 quadrillion gallons of fresh water.
jNGaa TIL on 28 November 1960 the Italian Judica-Cordiglia brothers intercepted an SOS signal moving away from earth from secret Soviet Union space programs before any human had managed to get beyond the stratosphere.
oRlZA TIL a number of people, including a group of Swedish researchers, tried to replicate the experiment shown in the documentary Super Size Me(2004). None of them were able to get the same results as the documentary creator.
xpjo TIL that the world’s most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory is named the VLT, for Very Large Telescope
x8gg TIL that after cocaine and heroin were legalized in Columbia, drug abuse rates rose 40%