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TIL that a canadian man changed his name to Above Znoneofthe for an election to trick people into voting for him.

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EWb0 TIL that in 2014 the Danish government recreated their entire country in Minecraft. It took 4 trillion blocks to build. However, it was discovered that you could use TNT Minecarts on the server. Almost immediatly people started blowing up towns, and planting american flags and tanks over the ruins.
nYO9 TIL the world’s fastest camera records at 4.4trillion frames per second at a resolution of 450x450 and is capable of recording individual photons.
VMoVp TIL Patrick Stewart largely changed the way people pronounce the word "data"
JDr1 TIL that doctors at Johns Hopkins University almost never confirm black lung in coal miners’ court hearings, leading to hundreds of cases where people suffering from black lung do not receive any benefits.
OGMR6 TIL in 2015 Texas voted to keep daylight savings time because they didn't want to risk residents having to choose between going to church and watching the Dallas Cowboys.