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TIL longest prison sentence for playing a video game belongs to Faiz Chopdat for playing Tetris on a flight.

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E1GlP TIL in 1942, as Japanese torpedoes slowly sank the U.S.S. Lexington, then the second-largest aircraft carrier in the Navy’s arsenal, the crew abandoned ship - but not before breaking into the freezer and eating all the ice cream.
ZpJ9a TIL the common ancestor that all life on Earth descended from, is called LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
ywr8 TIL on March 10, 1945, the U.S. carpet bombed Tokyo (specifically the area with homes made of wood and paper) with napalm, killing 105,400 people - putting it somewhere between the death toll of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
78w5Z TIL the soundtrack for Quake was written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
6E4Y TIL the Governor of New York wrote an article in 1919 warning of a “holocaust” against “six million” Jews in Europe