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TIL the anime streaming platform Crunchyroll was first launched as an anime pirating site, and even received venture capital funding while it still allowed uploads of unlicensed content to the site.

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XEd1Q TIL that Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was smoking so much pot that he installed a fireman's pole in his home so he can get to his studio faster so he doesn't forget ideas for songs/lyrics he's creating.
R5bYw TIL about the CTXφ bacteriophage: a virus that lives inside the Cholera Bacteria and carries the gene that causes symptoms in cholera infection. The unusual relationship is akin to a "symbiotic parasite"
b9bGj TIL Psychopaths and Sociopaths both fall into the same overall mental health diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD)
OoKkL TIL that the last date that all living humans were together on Earth was November 2nd 2000. Since then there has always been someone constantly onboard the International Space Station.
wLrkY TIL In 1959, nine Russian hikers died mysteriously in the Ural Mountains. Known as the "Dyatlov Pass Incident," investigators concluded that the nine died could have died of a "compelling natural force" known as infrasound-induced panic