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TIL special forces are trained to ignore the effects of flashbang grenades by being exposed to them from 100-200 times in training

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5YR9r TIL: In 2011, Electronic Arts released DLC for Dragon Age 2 and Crysis 2 purchased directly through the game, bypassing Steam's 30% cut. This led to Valve taking down the store pages, and EA refusing to release any games on Steam between 2011 and 2020.
grnXA TIL that Brooklyn New York has a bigger Jewish population than Jerusalem. 1 out of every 4 people in Brooklyn is Jewish and it has been called "the most Jewish spot on Earth".
ArWx TIL Michael Jackson not only enjoyed Weird Al Yankovic’s parodies of his songs, but helped to make them- at one point signing a contract for “Eat It” as a “co-writer,” and subsequently lending Weird Al the original “Bad” subway set for Yankovic’s own music video “Fat”.
l75kK TIL that the Columbia torch lady is a coworker of the painter hired for Columbia’s new logo. The impromptu photo shoot was conducted in her living room, and this session marked her first and only time modeling.
XO16 TIL that when Hitler forced the French to surrender during WW2 he did so on the site where the Germans were forced to surrender in WW1. Not only that but he found the same train carriage used in WW1 and forced the French to sign a surrender in that same train carriage.