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TIL World of Warcraft once had a “virtual plague” due to a bug, which epidemiologists used as a research model for real-world epidemics

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GK8J TIL a 16 year old boy was jailed at Rikers for three years without a trial or conviction.
Nem6 TIL there is a tribe of people cut off from the world, still living in the stone ages. When a helicopter came near them, they repelled it with a hail of arrows.
wLNv1 TIL: In 1993, San Francisco voters approved a ballot measure to allow police officers to go on patrol with a ventriloquist's dummy.
8emva TIL Oscar winners are forbidden from selling or disposing of their trophies without first offering it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for $1.
Wkxp8 TIL The phrase "cool as a cucumber" is actually a scientific fact: The inside temperature of a cucumber can be up to 20 degrees cooler than the outside air.