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TIL movies for Portal and Half Life have been announced

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gjyW TIL there is no upper age limit for Peace Corps volunteers and there are about 500 volunteers over age 50 (7% of their volunteers)
QNRbp TIL that despite only 3% of the 2.9 million female high school athletes are cheerleaders, they account for nearly 65% of catastrophic injuries in female high school sports.
nW969 TIL: The IRS have laws that if you steal property or make money from illegal activities, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you make or stole the goods for tax purposes and won't be investigated for a crime
mpDO TIL that Julius Caesar’s body was the subject of the earliest known recorded autopsy. Of the 23 stab wounds recorded, only one was potentially fatal on its own; the physician ruled his death due “mostly to blood loss.”
4kdAN TIL: That according to an alleged sacred text called the Greater Questions of Mary, Jesus took Mary Magdalene to the top of a mountain, where he pulled a woman out of his side and engaged in sexual intercourse with her. And then, upon ejaculating, Jesus drank his own semen.