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TIL Lego Universe, the Lego MMO that was cancelled in 2012 was likely cancelled due to the cost associated with detecting penises

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YNQG TIL that left turns make up less than 10% of all UPS truck turns. This policy was put into place in 2004 and has saved UPS 10 million gallons of fuel.
XVKR TIL there is a genre of movies called Bromantic comedies and include Harold and Kumar, The Hangover, and Pineapple Express.
womnY TIL about The Great Tantra Challenge, a live event in which Sanal Edamaruku, an Indian skeptic, challenged a tantrik to kill him with only magic. After multiple failed attempts, the tantrik claimed Sanal was under the protection of a powerful god, to which Sanal replied that he was an atheist.
Elrw TIL Richard Nixon cancelled the last three Apollo missions and did not fund any successor program, effectively ending NASA’s plan for a 100 person space station
gng8 TIL all 100 nuclear reactors now operating in the U.S. were built on or before 1977