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TIL that there are four national cemeteries that are allowed to fly their flags at half mast all the time - Pearl Harbor, Gettysburg, Arlington, and Mackinac Island

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VBG10 TIL that on Halloween in 2008 Doritos released a horror game called Hotel 626 that you could only play from 6pm to 6am and would call you in the middle of the night to scare you
N7j6E TIL a number of NFL players have gotten a fatal neurodegenerative disease called ALS. Including Waters, Hazeltine, and Lewis who were all on the San Francisco 49ers roster in 1963 or 1964.
rN7Nw TIL that the record for longest non stop run belongs to Dean Karnazes, who ran 350 miles (560 km), it took him 80 hours and 44 minutes
rMVM TIL in 1972 a pocket of uranium in Africa was found to have undergone self-sustaining nuclear fission for over 100,000 years, making it the only known naturally formed nuclear reactor.
W7EnN TIL Hard drives will be physically faster if you format files to the outer edge of disk