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TIL that CNN has a doomsday tape that they'll play when the world is confirmed to be ending

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eMN5 TIL: in 2012 a proposal was made in the Netherlands to create legal, VIRTUAL child pornography to help satisfy pedophiles’ needs and hopefully make them less likely to act out their fantasies.
10dO TIL that when Michael Jackson died, Google believed all the searches for his name were a DDoS attack, and blocked such searches for 30 minutes. Twitter and Wikipedia also crashed, with the Los Angeles Times suffering an outage also.
vPVoR TIL that Minnesota Has Been Holding Onto a Captured Confederate Flag for Over a Century, and When Virginia Asked for It Back, Governor Jesse Ventura Responded: "Why?" he asked. "We won."
ndyb TIL An average cloud weighs 216 thousand pounds. An average storm cloud weighs 105.8 million pounds.
QJ6EL TIL that Alex Karras, who played Mongo in Blazing Saddles, was also the dad in the 80s sitcom Webster and a member of the NFL Hall of Fame.