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TIL Gabe Newell is so confident in Valve’s Steam Guard he has announced his Steam username and password and challenged people to get in

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5YyQk TIL Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally supposed to play the role of The Predator and some footage of him in the suit exist
ADYKx TIL pine trees scatter their needles across the forest floor to make it easier for fires to burn all of the other trees - pine is fire resistant so it survives.
PmkV TIL that Windhoek, Namibia has been using Direct Potable Reuse (treated and filtered sewage becomes drinking water) for decades, and is the only city in the world to do so.
0dvnA TIL researchers at John Hopkins thought they'd discovered a medical breakthrough when they found a special metabolite in the urine of schizophrenic patients that nobody else had. Eventually, someone realized that ward was simply being served a different brand of coffee.
dQVj TIL of James Price, a British alchemist who commited suicide when asked to demonstrate his transmutation skills in public