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TIL Reporters Without Borders created a Minecraft server that hosts hundreds of censored articles from around the world for the entire world, even the most oppressed countries, to view

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9wYb6 TIL Smoke following people around a fire is due to hot air rising from the fire and drawing cold air towards it. A person would block cold air from flowing in that particular location, causing the hot air, along with the smoke, to seemingly follow the person.
aewJ TIL that sniper Carlos Hathcock crawled 1,500 yards inch by inch in order not to get detected to kill a high ranking officer, it took him 3 days and 4 nights. He also was the man who shot another sniper through the scope and killed him.
YwPW TIL some of the most powerful known earthquakes in the continental U.S. occurred in Missouri between December 1811 & February 1812. Multiple quakes occurred with a magnitude of 7.5 or greater shaking an area ten times larger than that affected by the magnitude 7.8 San Francisco earthquake of 1906
J17QQ TIL despite being now known as a coffee and donut restaurant, the first Tim Hortons in Canada was a charbroiled burger and hot dog restaurant in North Bay, ON.
7B47 TIL Google has been interested in becoming a wireless carrier like Verizon and AT&T since 2012.