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TIL Researchers at Cornell analyzing Youtube videos of heavy metal concerts found that mosh pits model the behavior of gas particles in equilibrium.

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7r8op TIL Christopher Sabat, the voice actor for Kuwabara in Yu Yu Hakusho, also voiced 18 of the characters from Dragon Ball Z.
x9Ob TIL the California capitol punishment program (death penalty) has spent $4 billion USD to execute 13 people since 1978.
7rjnp TIL of Alexander Yuvochenko, a survivor of the Chernobyl disaster. Most will recognize him as the man who holds the reactor door open in Episode 1 of the HBO show. Many assumed he had died, but he in fact survived his exposure to the radiation, living for another 22 years after the accident.
E1Q5p TIL Adam Weishaupt, the man who created the Illuminati, did so because he couldn't afford the Freemason's high membership fees.
4myw TIL that “darling” literally means “favorite minion.”