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TIL Halley's Comet accounts for about one eighth of all comet sightings mentioned in historic records. This is due to its brightness, especially compared to other comets.

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R75b4 TIL that the episode 'Paedogeddon!' of satirical series Brass Eye received nearly 3000 complaints. Some politicians condemned the episode, but later admitted never seeing it, including former Home Secretary David Blunkett who said he hadn't seen it because he was 'on holiday at the time and blind'.
kObY1 TIL that the !Kung people, a society of hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, do not know their own ages or years of birth. This is because they have little use for numbers that are not of immediate practical value.
wLLLW TIL in 2014, UK scientists created the fastest ever internet connection, clocking speeds of 1.4 terabits per second - enough to download 44 HD movies a second.
awaDb TIL there are more than 2,000 variants of the game Chess including: Chad, Rollerball, Atomic, Beirut, Jedi Knight, Hexagonal, Schroedinger's, Kung-fu, Apocalypse, Crazyhouse, Einstein, Crazyhouse, Weird, Martian, Sniper, Synchronous, Knightmare, Hostage, Spartan, Extinction, Infinite & Kamikaze.
b9Gop TIL: That there is something called “The Alaskan Triangle” and 16000 people have gone missing in it since 1988.