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TIL that Runescape has been remade inside Minecraft, including Tutorial Island and Quests.

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9mb7 TIL that above 70 Manhattan Project scientists signed a petition(Szilard Petition) to President Truman to beg that the bomb should not be used on a civilian population in Japan.
M7YQA TIL Web Development Isn't As Easy As They Make It To Be
OoNPY TIL That English has a subtle stress pattern to identify the Noun or Verb in a related word. For example Record; Record (N) and Record ; Contract (N) and ConTract (V) ; Refuse (N) and Refuse.
BrKyb TIL of Joy Milne who claimed that she smelled a distinct odor in patients with Parkinson's disease like her husband. She sniffed 6 shirts from people with Parkinson’s and 6 from healthy controls and identified 7 had it. 8 months later the "healthy" patient she "misidentified" was diagnosed as well.
awjVZ TIL that gif is pronounced as "jif" and not as gif as confirmed by the creator of the gif