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TIL Gabe Newell is married and has 2 sons. 2.

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yRxe TIL The tea-bag was an accidental invention. This occurred in 1908 when tea merchant Thomas Sullivan distributed his tea samples in small, silken bags. His customers, not understanding that these were samples, dunked them and suddenly Sullivan was swamped with orders for his ‘tea bags’!
R7V57 TIL when Rockstar first released Grand Theft Auto, they actually paid reviewers to negatively review the game in order to keep it controversial, and therefore popular. They targeted right wing news papers to ensure moral outrage and drive the game to success.
j56a TIL that Edgar Allan Poe is considered to have invented the first fictional detective.
daoK TIL the heaviest weight lifted by a human was 6,270 pounds, by Paul Anderson, who backlifted it in 1957. That’s more weight than an average female African elephant.
xEj5 TIL Martin Scorsese’s new movie “The Wolf on Wall Street” hold’s the record for dropping the most f-bombs in a film