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TIL that a prominent American physicist thinks that scientists who are observing dark matter these days could very well be setting off a chain of events which annihilates the universe.

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16BRr TIL that the first online purchase was made in 1994 when a man in Philadelphia used his computer to buy a Sting CD from an online store called NetMarket.
9wQ7M TIL that during the War of 1812, Native Americans ate the heart of one of the US captains who was Indian born, and regarded as courageous but a traitor.
b1LQ TIL Japan’s justice system largely depends on confessions for convictions. Combined with the expectations (high conviction rate) and that a prosecutor’s career is often over with a non-guilty verdict, methods are often used to get false confessions out of the accused.
lZV1 TIL The Red Cross raised over half a billion dollars to provide housing for the Haitians after their devastating earth quake, and only built a total of 6 homes
gMa19 TIL the least-visited national park in the U.S. is the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska, which lies entirely north of the Arctic Circle and has "no established roads, trails, visitor facilities, or campgrounds."