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TIL the 2004 Indonesian Earthquake had the equivalent energy of 23,000 Hiroshima explosions

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m1EZO TIL Canine Distemper Virus is lethal to pandas. Between December 2014 and March 2015, five captive giant pandas died due to canine distemper virus (CDV) infection in China.
9wweX TIL Yu-Gi-Oh holds the Guinness World Record for top selling trading card game. As of January 2021, it is estimated to have sold about 35 billion cards worldwide.
oR58W TIL a finance worker was scammed for $25 Million through a Deepfake video conference. The worker thought he was on a call with multiple of his colleagues (who he recognised) and the company's CFO, but all of them were fake.
9wPGQ TIL that water bottles can expire. Not the water but the plastic bottles.
kJGEg TIL that, despite belief it came out in 1991 alongside Sonic the Hedgehog 1, the Genesis, known as the Mega Drive outside of the USA, was actually released in 1989 in the USA.