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TIL Matthew Perry (“Chandler” from Friends) played Fallout 3 so often that he had to see a doctor for his hands.

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9KED TIL that of the of the 139 members elected to the 1934 USSR Central Committee of the Communist Party at the 17th Congress, Stalin had 98 executed. Of 1,996 party members present, 1,108 were arrested, and about two thirds of those executed. Thus it was given the name “The Congress of the Condemned”.
69Bl7 TIL In 2010, the US Air Force used 1,760 PlayStation 3 consoles to build a supercomputer for the Department of Defense. It was called the Condor Cluster. They used PS3’s because it was more cost-efficient.
nWJjG TIL the Woodstock 1999 festival was so ill-prepared for the crowd size that portable toilets overflowed and there was no shade from the heat. Attendees started playing in mud to cool off unaware it was contaminated by waste leaking from toilets leading to many cases of trench mouth and trench foot.
JYGMB TIL that the former president of SEGA gave the company $730M as part of his dying will, in the form of stocks and debt forgiveness, covering the loss from the the Dreamcast failure.
Qp4e TIL When Stephen Colbert ran for president in 2008, the Facebook group supporting the campaign became the fastest growing group on the site’s history, surpassing a million members in 9 days.