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TIL mIRC still exists and being updated, last one came out 2 months ago.

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DQNYY TIL that at the 1992 Winter Olympics Tonya Harding figure skated to a song called "People Are Still Having Sex." The non-instrumental was a Billboard US dance chart #1 hit, featuring a narrator talking about the fact that people are still having sex.
W9AB TIL that there’s a rare, discontinued kind of firearm (pistols, rifles) that shoots tiny ROCKETS instead of bullets!
womo8 TIL in addition to being energy efficient, modern streetlights are frequently wirelessly connected, letting municipalities/utility companies know when their lightbulbs might need to get replaced.
N7Z1J TIL that Kurt Cobain sat next to Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses in a flight to Seattle right after escaping from rehab just days before his suicide in 1994, despite the animosity between both bands McKagan said that Cobain was very pleasant and "Seemed happy".
46d6 TIL Isaac Newton stuck a needle in his eye, placing pressure on the eyeball, to study the human eye as a lens and how it perceives color.