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TIL 5.93million YEARS of game play have been clocked in WoW

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rDDo TIL 25% of all bottled water in the US comes from the city’s tap including Aquafina (Pepsi) & Dasani (Coke)
omeK TIL that there is a galaxy being deathray-ed by its own supermassive black hole.
ky57 TIL Tuberculosis was so romanticized during the Victorian era that fashion trends emerged to highlight and emulate the symptoms of the disease. This fashion movement is referred to as “Consumptive Chic”.
v1rKx TIL that at 23 years old, Isaac Newton went into quarantine due to the bubonic plague. During his time in quarantine, he proved the refractive properties of prisms, invented calculus, and was famously hit on the head by an apple.
n65o TIL that on Oct. 4, 2013 a man named John Constantino, a former Vietnam Vet self-immolated on the National Mall seemingly to protest the Federal government during “the shutdown,” but later the story was redacted to emphasize that he had been battling mental illness.