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TIL Nicolas Cage was once stalked by a mime.

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LkpG0 TIL that in a Black Mirror episode aired in December 2017, a self-driving pizza delivery truck hits a pedestrian. Two weeks later, Pizza Hut and Toyota announced a partnership to make self-driving cars that could deliver pizza.
l70jV TIL I learned of a gamma ray burst that struck earth with such intensity it had the same effects as a powerful solar flair. The source of the burst was over two billion light years away.
xn55 TIL of the Shadow Biosphere. A hypothesis proposing the existence of lifeforms undetected by standard methods. One such being the continuation of the RNA World
awW6J TIL The first recorded use of using a 'V' finger sign as an insult, was a Yorkshire laborer in 1901, who was flipping off the camera man for filming him
a7do TIL in 2002, Christopher Dorner and a classmate found a bag containing $8,000 that belonged to the ‘Enid Korean Church of Grace’. They turned it into the police. When asked their motive, Dorner said “It’s an integrity thing. My mother taught me honesty and integrity.”