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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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JYpaQ TIL that the French King, Lois XIV owned a collection of 413 beds in several places all over France, so that he could sleep in his own bed, no matter where he traveled.
aGWM TIL after Sports Illustrated published its “Bag It, Michael” cover story about his lackluster baseball career in 1994, Michael Jordan cut off all official communication with the magazine, even to this day
R7baQ TIL That pencils never actually contained lead, people just called it that cause they thought graphite was a type of lead.
Zp0ZD TIL the highest temperature ever reached is 4 trillion Celsius degrees. Scientists used a giant atom smasher to reach it for a few milliseconds. It was so hot that even protons and neutrons melted. They believe a similar temperature was reached during the milliseconds that followed the Big Bang.
5YG5B TIL the first Legoland theme park built outside of Europe was in Carlsbad, California.