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TIL in 2014 there was a 7,500 player battle in EVE Online, with thousands of ships being destroyed and an estimated $300,000 of real world money being lost in the conflict.

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W7GRB TIL that the Franchi SPAS 12, one of the most iconic movie guns and a staple in countless video games, has not been in production for 24 years and due to this and a temporary import ban to the US (1989 -2004), is actually highly sought after and quite expensive.
Y7xNr TIL that when baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash, his teammate Manny Sanguillen was the only one of his teammates who did not attend the memorial service as he chose to dive into the shark-infested crash site to try to help retrieve the body.
B66K TIL winter lasts 21 years on Uranus.
JBoQ TIL That a 50-year old Zookeeper in China Licked a 3-month old monkey’s anus to prevent it from choking to death on a peanut.
nWNMY TIL bicycle brakes in the UK are reversed from the US and Europe