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TIL a Chinese father hired a ‘hitman’ to kill his son’s character in online games so that he would stop playing games and get himself a job.

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J1ak1 TIL 3D graphics in computers are optical illusion , since the screen is 2D its all about prescriptive ( like 3D optical illusions and drawings on papers or walls)
n1KG TIL Einstein, a parrot with a vocabulary of about 200 words, gave a TED talk.
1aQNO TIL that the collapse of the Soviet Union directly correlated with the resurgence of Cuba’s amazing coral reef. Without Russian supplied synthetic fertilizers and ag practices, Cubans were forced to depend on organic farming. This led to less chemical runoff in the oceans.
R50yQ TILstars have been found nearly halfway to Andromeda Galaxy more than 1 million light-years away from us. For comparison Milky Way’s thin disk is about 100,000 light-years across and Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away.
aor0 TIL That during his Indian campaign, Alexander the great encountered a tribe that hadn’t discovered fire yet