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TIL Robin Williams was a huge gamer. Staying up till 2 am playing Battlefield 2, roasting teenagers on Call of Duty, even naming his daughter Zelda after 'The Legend of Zelda.'

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6EQ8w TIL Old Linde brand gas cylinders sometimes have a 'window' shape stamped on them. They were captured from Nazi Germany and the swastika symbol was re-stamped with a square, making the window
bpaZ TIL the USA paid $200 billion dollars to cable company’s to provide the US with Fiber internet. They took the money and didn’t do anything with it.
NyDQ TIL Ben Affleck once asked Michael Bay on the set of Armageddon: Wouldn’t it make more sense just to train experienced astronauts how to drill instead of the other way around (?), and Bay responded “shut the f%ck up”.
epxn5 TIL: Zheng Yi, was a powerful pirate lord who married a floating brothel Madame to combine his might and her information web. This led to the foundation of the Red Flag Fleet, one of the most powerful fleets in China. He then died, and his wife married their stepson and became a female pirate lord.
R7W77 TIL NASA pioneered research for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)/Orthostatic Intolerance (OI) and developed therapeutic exercise programs for them for astronauts returning from space.