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TIL an online gamer solved a missing child case in the USA remotely from his bedroom in England

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9wBX7 TIL Tom Morello’s mom, Mary Morello, founded an anti-censorship group, Parents for Rick and Rap in 1987. It was an opposition to the Parents Music Resource Center, which created the “Parental Advisory” stickers for explicit albums. Mary is also 101.
vJvB TIL at the 2000 Sydney Games, the stock of 70,000 condoms was not enough for the athletes, prompting a second order of 20,000 additionally. Since then, a standing order of 100,000 condoms has to be made per Olympics to accommodate all the sex that occurs at the Olympic Village during the downtime.
N7OwQ TIL Part of the Falklands Islands is littered with leftover landmines from the Falklands War. This stretch of beach has become home to hundreds of penguins as they are too light to trigger the mines when walking on them.
16OO TIL that, contrary to depictions in science fiction, the human body can briefly survive in outer space unprotected, and that the human skin doubles in size, more resembling a body builder than a balloon.
W7Q4o TIL more than 30 million viewers watched Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital in 1981, a soap opera record that still stands today