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TIL the Danish government recreated the entire country of Denmark in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale, made of 4000 billion bricks. Players, exploiting a loophole, blew it up and planted an American flag.

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JYyjk TIL: Quaker Oats fed radioactive milk and oatmeal to unsuspecting special needs kids under the guise of a science club in order to find out how beneficial certain nutrients were in their oats.
Lk5LQ TIL for 49 years the dinosaur Deinocheirus remained a mystery, known only for having the longest "arms" in the bipedal dinosaur world at almost 8 feet long. 2 near complete skeletons found by poachers were finally described in 2014, reveling a strange unexpected body shape.
X77k TIL the scientist who developed the vaccine to fight leprosy is about to reach his 100th birthday and is still working to find a vaccine for cancer
O0pe TIL: Steve Wozniak was the first owner of the phone number 888-888-8888. But it proved unusable, receiving over 100 wrong numbers a day – mostly from babies playing with the phone.
e6jL TIL that in Holland,the government introduced a video, which was compulsory viewing for all would be immigrants, showing gay men kissing and topless bathers, with the specific aim of testing muslim attitudes.