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TIL the minimum number of people to populate a space colony with minimum inbreeding is 160.

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b9lo4 TIL in 1998 a 23 year old man in Ohio choked to death on a live goldfish he tried to swallow on a dare. In response to if anyone would be charged for the man’s death, a police officer stated “If I dare you to jump off a bridge and you do it and you’re 23 years of age, you’re stupid.”
KjlE TIL a person who picked on Eminem in school sued him for his 1999 song ‘Brain Damage’. The judge dismissed the case and delivered the verdict as a rap.
lokZ7 TIL that there was a full movie theater with a bar, concessions, seats, and movie screen in an underground catacomb of Paris. (
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