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TIL the number 42 was the random seed chosen to generate the universe in EVE Online

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x6EbB TIL that www. = World Wide Web
DyeD TIL In 2013, Russian artist and activist Petr Pavlensky sat down naked in Red Square and pounded a nail through his scrotum and into the cobblestone street. He called it a “metaphor of apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of Russian society.”
P14Pe TIL that killer whales have cooperated with human whalers in the past.
rEE4 TIL that on any given night there are around 60,000 homeless war vets sleeping on americas streets.
16OlD TIL of Lewis Harned, an American who served as an ambulance driver in WWII from 1943-45, attached to the British Army. He also served in the Gulf War, 45 years later, with the American Army, from 1990-91.