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TIL Mitch Hedberg was found dead (overdose) in his hotel room March 30th 2005, but was announced on April 1st (monday), causing some fans to believe it was an april fools joke.

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wao TIL that ancient greek buildings and statues weren’t white, but in fact very colorful when they weren’t ancient.
ADn9o TIL that Henry George's treatise on economics "Progress and Poverty", which seeks to explain why poverty exists even within advanced and wealthy societies, sold over 3 million copies in the first 10 years after its publication, making it more popular than every book in the 1890s except for the Bible
e776 TIL that Monsanto has sued 145 individual US farmers since the 1990s for patent infringement relating to its genetically modified seed, including cases of unwanted contamination by Monsanto’s seed
8KXP TIL “Porn Judge” is an official Chinese government job title. Judges are paid $32,000 per year to view porn all day and have the sacred task of “returning the Internet to a clean and safe state”. One judge is named “Wang Dong”.
LQXap TIL the Saturn V rocket, which first took humans to the Moon, weighed just under three million kilogrammes before launch, or roughly the weight of 400 elephants. More than 90% of this weight was fuel alone, leaving a payload of just 43,000 kilogrammes to reach the Moon's orbit.