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TIL that Markus Persson, the billionaire creator of Minecraft, never finished high school

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kOdvB TIL The Dragonfly is one of the most skilled predators on the planet being absolutely lethal to other insects, missing only one prey in twenty.
goEA TIL that the movie “Escape from Tomorrow” was filmed in its entirety in Disney World, without Disney knowing about it. The actors read their scripts off of cell phones to keep themselves hidden.
KO1ZR TIL that adding the suffix "-gate" to scandals or controversies (like gamer-gate) was started by the former script writer for President Nixon to minimize the seriousness of the Watergate scandal.
W7JaY TIL only 16 out of 54 African countries have been visited by a sitting US president.
yNQp TIL that a British soldier who fought in both World Wars was shot in the face, head, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunnelled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn’t amputate them. He later said “frankly I had enjoyed the war.”