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TIL that even the typographer who designed Comic Sans only used it once, and that was to send a letter to Sky for his broadband problem.

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e05Xg TIL the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was re-edited by Kurt Cobain; among other things, he almost completely removed shots of a dorky teacher and an angry principal from the director's cut. (The teacher appears briefly at the end.)
GANl1 TIL on October 2 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737 sideswiped a Boeing 707 and then collided into a Boeing 757 at China’s former Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. It resulted in 128 people being killed and the Captain of the 707 getting injured.
oBl1E TIL that Human Evolution is actually accelerating. The rate of evolution is far greater in the last few thousand years than it had been in the six million years since we split from our last common ancestor with present day chimpanzees.
8ePaK TIL the 1991 eruption of Mt.Pinatubo in the Philippines triggered a "volcanic winter" that lowered the earth's temperature, causing unusually cold weather in the northern hemisphere for a few years afterwards.
R5kGw TIL there is still thousands of unexploded Japanese balloon bombs in the continental 48 states from WWII.