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TIL Skype was developed by the same Estonian programmers who created Kazaa.

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VPMG TIL that the brightest supernova we have ever witnessed had a kill radius of 500-1000 light years, meaning it would have sterilized millions of habitable planets.
Ov54 TIL in 1998 while conservationists were repairing Benjamin franklins London home, 15 bodies were found in the basement, buried in a secret windowless room beneath the garden. It’s thought the remains are from an anatomy school run by Benjamin Franklin’s friend William Hewson
Y7Y5B TIL that last year the tallest mountain in Colorado was renamed Mount Blue Sky (from Mount Evans)
gMaXL TIL It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion.
NXrB1 TIL Abu Dhabi owns all of Chicago's 36,000+ parking meters until at least 2083