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TIL - 1816 was “the year without summer”

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nx4o TIL the Boston Bombers is the name of the city’s only semi-pro women’s basketball team.
YmQd TIL after Christopher Reeve’s injury, Robin Williams burst into his room in the ICU in full scrubs and claimed he was a proctologist and that he was going to perform a rectal exam. Reeve said it was the first time he had laughed since the accident, and he knew somehow everything was going to be okay
ADE0o TIL that the 4.6 billion streams of "Despacito" used as much electricity as the combined annual electricity consumption of Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic.
epDVL TIL about lipograms: written work in which a particular letter is intentionally omitted. Ernest Wright wrote his 1939 novel Gadsby without the letter "e," and his book was 50,000 words long.
7RvP TIL Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, was so powerful that it created seismic shocks that were measurable even on their third passage around the Earth.