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

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0wx7y TIL that in 1990, Katya Mayorova was crowned as "Miss KGB", the world's only holder of a security services beauty title. She was described as "wearing her bulletproof vest with an exquisite softness", with one of her many charms "her ability to deliver a karate kick to her enemy's head"
nWZJB TIL Greenland got its name purely for marketing reasons by Erik the Red who wanted to attract settlers to his new settlement there
wb17 TIL The Yellowstone National Park Bison Herd is the only population of American bison in the United States to have lived continuously in the wild from prehistoric times
dDgJQ TIL "A Charlie Brown Christmas" ironically contained Coca-Cola ads when it first aired in 1965. They were removed in future airings when the Coke sponsorship ended.
jg5p TIL Jimi Hendrix was once invited to play with Cream alongside Eric Clapton. In the middle of the show, Clapton walked off stage. He was found in the back shaking angrily and smoking a cigarette. When asked what was wrong, he simply replied, “You never told me he was that fucking good.”