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TIL about the game, where you lose if you think about 'the game' and you must announce you lost the game

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gZaA TIL a NASA scientist invented the Super Soaker
KOKAG TIL Mt. Everest was climbed in 10h 56m by Lakpa Gelu Sherpa, who is said to have left base camp, summitted, and returned in just over 18 hours.
4V0g TIL that in 1998, Bill Gates earned $1 million per hour (and almost $300 per second).
mV1R TIL that Sweden’s recycling program is so successful that they are asking Norway for their trash to power their own Waste-to-Power plants because they don’t have enough non-recycled waste.
noy7 TIL since the 1990s, Carmel, Indiana has been replacing all signaled intersections with roundabouts. Benefits include gas savings of 24k gallons/year per roundabout; construction costs $125,000 less per intersection; injury accidents dropped by 80 percent and total accidents dropped by 40 percent.