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TIL that John Carpenter is a fan of video games like Fallout, Borderlands, Horizon: Zero Dawn and Assassin's Creed

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E4Bo TIL that there exists an ASCII copy of the matrix from start to finish, and is one of the first torrents ever to have existed. (link goes to a preview of what the movie looks like)
rRmVy TIL in 1921 a group of workers in a fertilizer factory stuck dynamite in a 4.5k lbs block of hardened ammonium nitrate to loosen it up. The resulting explosion killed 500 people, destroyed 80% of the surrounding homes and ripped the roofs off of buildings 15 miles away.
4XRrw TIL Sour Patch Kids were originally called Mars Men, but the name changed in 1985 to capitalize on the popularity of Cabbage Patch Kids.
DWJg TIL studies show that teens overestimate how much the cooler kids and jocks are drinking and having sex, and also how much the nerds are studying
e0xP6 TIL After being largely cut out of his father's will John Lennon's son from his first marriage, Julian Lennon, was forced to bid on sentimental postcards addressed to him by his late father. Yoko Ono auctioned them off for tens of thousands of dollars instead of giving them to Julian.