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TIL that there is a campaign to rid world of the Flash Player Plugin

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9YnaM TIL that in 1950, Venezuela had the fourth-highest GDP per capita in the world. They had a higher GDP per capita than Canada.
7r6xL TIL that Sisqo and Bob Newhart almost co-starred in a 2001 sitcom together that was going to air on NBC
9wAer TIL of Tilt Cove in Newfoundland, the smallest town in Canada with a population of 4-5 inhabitants.
M7EQ8 TIL that some people are genetically gifted in that they can sleep for as little as 4 hours without suffering from daytime sleepiness or other consequences of sleep deprivation
kJLY4 TIL that Jack Black's mom was Judith Love Cohen, a NASA engineer who helped create the abort-guidance system that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. Also according to one obituary, she went to the office the day Jack was born and took a printout of a problem with her, that she solved later that day.