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TIL the infamous antigaming website, MAVAV (Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence) was a hoax created to show how information can be propogated on the internet.

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VBQWG TIL in 2020 scientists captured the first direct image of a solar system that closely resembles our own (roughly 300 light years away), that is to say it marked the first time astronomers have observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun.
l7Wj1 TIL 16th century satirist Pietro Aretino made a living by blackmailing public figures who paid him off to avoid his public criticism. He once tried to extort a priceless work out of Michelangelo by telling him that his Last Judgment in the Cistine Chapel was more suited to decorate a brothel
p8noA TIL The fastest Cheetah ever recorded was named Sarah. In 2012, then-11-year-old Sarah was filmed running on a U.S.A. Track and Field-certified course at an unmatched pace of 61 miles per hour. Sarah’s 5.95 second 100-meter dash holds the known planet-wide record.
PYJGJ TIL that the girl that inspired the worldwide hit song, 'The Girl from Ipanema' in the mid-1960s was Heloisa Pinta. Now 74 years of age, she was a Brazilian Playboy Playmate in 1987 and again in 2003.
Yp7QP TIL that the Nintendo character Kirby was named after John Kirby, the legal counsel for Nintendo who helped them win their lawsuit with Universal Studios in 1982. John Kirby was gifted a sailboat Christened the “Donkey Kong” and given exclusive rights to name any boat he owned “Donkey Kong.”