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TIL that Steam was originally created so Valve didn't have to keep shutting off Counter-Strike servers to fix issues with the game.

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XZ5P TIL that Lina Medina, the world’s youngest mother who gave birth at the age of five in 1939 had started menstruating at three, developed breasts at four and broader hips by five. The biological father was never found and she is still alive today.
586k TIL: North Korea have deposited 500 cannabis strains in the Doomsday Seed Bank while the U.S. has sent none
rXmw TIL that America donates the most per capita to charity than any other country.
O6R6 TIL Jim Lovell said in his book that if the Apollo 13 crew stayed still long enough when the electricity shut off, their body heat would form a cocoon of warm air around them. With everything shut down as much as possible he said even a slight movement would destroy the layer of heat.
RYr6 TIL in 2012, a neon light was discovered behind a bathroom wall in a Los Angeles restaurant, which had been left on for 77 years, amounting to over $17,000 in electric bills