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TIL there is a secret carpool society in Washington DC

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15jP TIL that a 46 year old man found and attacked a 13 year old kid because the kid killed him too many times in Call of Duty.
5Vw8k TIL numerous requests to license Rollerball (1975) into a real game angered the director, Norman Jewison, who said the movie's point was to show the "sickness and insanity of contact sports and their allure".
1aZrr TIL of "Münchhausen trilemma" which expresses that absolute truth is impossible because someone can just ask "Why?" forever which leads to 1 of 3 options; the proof and theory end up the same, infinite regression of the proof, or one party simply gives up and accepts a truth without actual proof
OG7r6 TIL the tallest mountains on Titan, a moon of Saturn, are all named after places in The Lord of the Rings, with the tallest being Doom Mons, or Mount Doom.