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TIL that the drinking age in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is 18

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j6Jvp TIL the origin of Sniper. It comes from the verb "to snipe", originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India in reference to shooting snipes, an extremely challenging game bird for hunters due to its alertness, camouflaging color and erratic flight behavior.
XOJP TIL Roger Ebert gave a half-star review to the Power Rangers movie: “What depresses me inutterably is that children, who are fresh and inquisitive, will go to this movie and, for 88 minutes, the movie will do what it can to deaden their imaginations. ”
LeQv TIL that the nomadic “hunter-gatherer” phase of humanity makes up over 90% of Homo Sapien history. Civilisation and recorded history have existed for a tiny fraction of the time that our species has existed.
OoO47 TIL Duke Nukem's original developer, Apogee Software, feared they would be sued due to the Captain Planet and the Planeteers animated series featuring a character with the same name. They renamed the 2.0 version of its game Duke Nukum because of this. It turned out the name was not registered.
X0a1R TIL 2.5 miles beneath the Amazon River is another body of water called the Hamza River. The Hamza is much wider than the Amazon; it's salty; and it moves at a glacial speed.