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TIL the logo of VLC media player is a traffic cone because the creators of the program had a traffic cone collection in their laboratory.

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4XgGo TIL about the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge", an anticyclone high pressure wall which was blocking the North Pacific storm track from getting rain to California over the last roughly 8 years, causing the state's recent record breaking drought. It has finally dissipated and now we get rain again.
5jVr TIL: Only 6% of millennials have a credit score considered excellent.
0wbZL TIL that hydrogen exists as a metal on other planets
QN8Da TIL Ringo Starr’s 1973 album “Ringo” is the only time all four Beatles appeared on the same album following their split.
bxpa TIL of Fatal Familial Insomnia, a very rare and incurable disease which destroys the patient’s ability to sleep. At the time of death some victims have been sleep-deprived for up to six months.