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TIL the average silverback gorilla can lift more than 10x its body weight. Meanwhile I’m over here struggling with a Costco water pack.

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AgMw TIL in 1882, a house, 5 ft wide, 4 stories high and 104 ft deep was erected on Lexington Ave, NYC to “spite” the neighbor, and block his views. It was known as “Spite House”.
R5P7j TIL Warner Bros. Games canceled a Wonder Woman video game that was "still years away from release" even though it had already spent more than $100 million on the game's development. WB also closed the studio that had been behind that development, Monolith Productions.
VM7pG TIL that the vlog brothers were negotiating a TV show, the network offered them $2000, Hank accidentally replied all "this number is missing 2 0's" the network replied back and agreed. (34:20)
ykAJ TIL Laser Tag was actually military combat training before it was commercial recreation
R549l TIL a black slave soldier that fought in the revolutionary War lived to see the abolition of slavery, about 80 years after the war ended