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TIL The scene in the breakfast club where they all talk about why they were in detention is completely unscripted

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p8JxZ TIL every time a global epidemic happens (like the 2014 Ebola outbreak), sales of the app ‎Plague Inc. skyrocket.
ZpWxY TIL for weeks, no one was able to identify what ailed a community of sick chimpanzees in Uganda, even as the animals had began to die. But researchers eventually discovered the body of an adult female & were able to determine that more than 12% of the community had been killed by the common cold.
rwo4 TIL Bill Gates could give away 98% of his wealth and still be a billionaire.
p8Eje TIL that a violent Japanese leftist group, the United Red Army, invaded a ski lodge and took the housekeeper hostage, resulting in a bloody ten-day standoff with the police and the first-ever live 24-hour news coverage in Japan
9w4aG TIL that Farfalle pasta, commonly called bow-tie pasta in English, is named for butterflies in Italian and not neckwear.