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TIL that JJ Abrams has made a deal with Valve to produce films based on Portal and Half-Life

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gyX8 TIL the band that wrote and performed “Come and Get Your Love” was made up of Native Americans
p8Yyp TIL: 1 in 20 Americans is a Millionaire
d8WdK TIL about the Doomsday Algorithm - a method to mentally calculate the day of the week given any date based on the fact that 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 all occur on the same day of the week regardless of the year.
E1mYx TIL in 1793, Thomas Jefferson requested a 1kg copper cylinder from France, to be used as a weight standard in adopting the metric system in the United States. The ship carrying the copper was blown off course into the Caribbean, where it was looted by pirates.
PYpDZ TIL that in the Vietnam War, the Americans fired 50,000 bullets for each enemy killed