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TIL that SEGA is short for Service Games
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TIL in 1862 atmospheric rivers created a 40-day mega-storm in California that utterly destroyed a third of the state. Research shows that such a storm happens every 200 years.
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TIL that the largest known star, UY Scuti, is so large that if it was placed at the center of our Solar System, its radius would engulf the orbit of Jupiter - and maybe even Saturn
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TIL Chinese has so many characters that even China’s standard dictionary once forgot to include 30 already used in its preface
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TIL of the "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti", which is a psychiatric case-study that revolved around an experiment on a group of three patients with paranoid schizophrenia, each of whom believed they were literally Jesus Christ. They were brought together and "quarreled over who was holier".
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TIL The arms company, Berreta, was founded 1526, making it almost 500 years old.