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TIL After Kim Dotcom, creator of megaupload, had his house raided by authorities he used the footage to create his own music video

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97rm TIL that President John Adams had a dog named Satan
4XnvR TIL the current water speed record of 318mph (511.1kph) was set by an Australian in 1977 and remains unbroken to this day. Two attempt have been made to break this record in the past 40 years and both resulted in the deaths of their operators.
YplWA TIL that the common ancestor of all fish had lungs, and that modern swim bladders in most fish are actually highly-derived lungs. In more oxygen-poor times hundreds of millions of years ago, being able to gulp down oxygen, which was more plentiful in air, was a huge evolutionary advantage.
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