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TIL about .kkrieger, a fully 3D first person shooter which takes up only 96KB. This is about 60x smaller than the average selfie.

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W79MB TIL the US box office for the James Bond film No Time to Die was $160,891,007.
neVbd TIL About the legend of Wan Hu, a supposed Chinese man who became the “first astronaut” in 2000BC by tying 47 firework rockets to a chair. Dressed in regal splendour, he had 47 servants light each of the rockets and then took off as they ran for cover. When the smoke cleared, he was gone.
pY6VZ TIL about the Spanish composer Enrique Granados who basically lived out the real life version of the end of Titanic when a ship he was on was torpedoed by a German submarine and his wife couldn't fit on the life raft.
eLjk TIL the Brazilian football player Sócrates, was a doctor of medicine, a degree he earned concurrently playing professional football. He was also noted for being an intellectual, a heavy drinker and a smoker.
OGj5L TIL a tornado rating of EFU exists, and is for tornadoes that aren't strong enough/ didn't impact an area with observable damage, so they are of unknown intensity. Hence, EFU.