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TIL There’s actually no such thing as vegetables.

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R78rl TIL Robin Williams, as a stand up comedian, would use other comedians material, and it got to the point, that if a comedian saw Williams in the audience of a comedy club, they would stop their act immediately to prevent Williams from writing down their best jokes.
RGxl TIL that 7 months after Russia declared war on Germany in 1914, a small band of Georgian warriors from a remote part of Georgia clad in medieval armor rode into the capital of Tiflis and up to the governor’s palace, reporting for military duty, stating: “We hear there’s a war” “Where’s the war”
awyOZ TIL: In 1994 an Airbus A310 crashed because of the pilot letting his 12 year old and 16 year old children pilot the plane, killing all 75 passengers and crew.
mWoP TIL that, of the 15 most successful movies of 2014, none was from an original screenplay, one (American Sniper) was from a book, the rest are remakes, sequels, and comic adaptations
KL1B TIL that in the first “real-world transaction with bitcoin” a programmer paid 10,000 bitcoins for 2 large Papa John’s pizzas. 4 years later, those bitcoins were worth 5.12 million dollars.