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TIL Pop artist Mike Posner, a track and cross country athlete growing up, recently performed a 3000+ mile walk across America spanning over 181 days.

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QDBE TIL that “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. […] They contradict their parents […] and tyrannise their teachers.” is a quote from “The Clouds”, a Greek comedic play from 423 BC.
x6J7o TIL there are 16.7 million IP addresses reserved specifically for amateur HAM radio operators
R7x5a TIL Cult Toons was cartoon that ran from 1999 to 2000 on Cartoon Network. The show was a series of seemingly irrelevant and obscure clips from films and cartoons edited together for comedic purposes and had a very surreal and non sequitur quality. Often featuring Andy LeBeau suddenly exploding.
4k84X TIL that a T-Rex is historically closer to an ipod than to Stegosaurus.
1aydO TIL that, despite scathing reviews, every successive film in the Resident Evil franchise has made more money globally than the previous film (with the exception of Resident Evil: Retribution). The series has made more than $1 billion total and 4 out of 6 of the films opened at #1 in North America.