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TIL that the first Hollywood feature-film chosen for release using the newly invented DVD technology was Twister (1996).

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1ajx4 TIL In the popular American animated television series "Dexter's Laboratory", the lead character Dexter the genius boy was voiced by two Female voice artists : Christine Cavanaugh in seasons 1–3 and Candi Milo in seasons 3–4.
R7Op8 TIL that the mountain K2 (the 2nd highest in the world) was named such as a placeholder, literally "the 2nd peak in the Karakoram mountain range". it stuck because the mountain is so remote that no one else had given it a name.
e0xrL TIL in 1916, German spies blew up a munitions depot at Black Tom Island in New Jersey, killing five people. The explosion was registered at 5.5 on the Richter scale—30 times more powerful than the World Trade Center collapse on 9/11. So loud that it shook buildings in five states as far as Maryland.
8aw4L TIL under U.S. federal law, if you know you're under investigation then it's illegal to delete your browser history.
Lv1r TIL Police in the UK have shot dead 5 people in the last 4 years. In the US, this figure is 1600.