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TIL EA hired people to protest against their own games

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OGAY6 TIL flying has become so reliable that you could fly every day for an average of 123,000 years before being in a fatal crash.
9wMJm TIL a severely injured pigeon saved 194 men during WW1
dDm8B TIL the last elementary particle that we know to exist was discovered in 2012 at the CERN in Switzerland, using the Large Hadron Collider. It's called the Higgs boson and it's the particle responsible for "assigning" a mass to other elementary particles.
WBd8 TIL the Mayor of Lake Worth, FL swam across the Lake Worth Lagoon in 1998 to raise awareness of how dirty it had become. After completing the swim, he spent three days in the hospital and nearly died.
rNA1y TIL Caffenism is a state of intoxication from consuming too much caffeine. Extreme symptoms are muscle twitching, cardiac arrhythmia, periods of inexhaustibility, and loss of appetite.