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TIL a Rocket League streamer set out to host The Longest Game, knowing that match servers usually crash after an hour or so. The match never crashed in the end (Psyonix also denied any involvement in the match), and was manually stopped after 11 hours.

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VMWX0 TIL The FBI’s Indian Country program includes over 140 special agents and 40 victim specialists in 36 field offices. Indeed, 33% of all FBI victim specialists and 50% of all FBI child and adolescent forensic interviewers work directly with victims and families on more than 200 Indian reservations.
oRrwo TIL Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails one free, high-quality book every month to children from birth to age five, no matter their family’s income.
b6va4 TIL about the Camondo Stairs in Istanbul, Turkey which were built by Abraham Salomon Camondo in the 1870s. The stairway was constructed as a shortcut for his children to go to school and its hexagonal shape was designed to prevent his children from falling further down the steps in case they fell.
4Xbea TIL about the Implicit Association Test (IAT). It is a test developed in 1998 to assess people's implicit bias in things such as race and sex. I've linked the Harvard version of the test if you want to give it a go.
M7N7W TIL about "As Slow as Possible" a musical piece for organ that has been in performance since September 5, 2001 at the St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt. It is scheduled to complete on September 5, 2640.