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TIL South Korean Lee Seung Seop, 28, collapsed of fatigue and perished after playing the video game StarCraft online for almost 50 consecutive hours in an internet cafe.

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rNJ84 TIL that from 1170 to 1512, "The Neck Verse" could save one from punishment for almost any crime in England. Literate accusees, or criminals who had simply memorised Psalm 51:3, would recite it to claim the "Benefit of Clergy", meaning they would be tried by the much more lenient church courts.
14vW TIL the Danube river (Europe’s longest river) begins in the Black Forest in Germany, flows southeast for 1,189 miles, passes through four capital cities, and ends in the Black Sea.
rZAx TIL the “golden spike” didn’t actually complete the Transcontinental Railroad. Despite the well-known ceremony, the actual completion took place 15 months later in Colorado. Until then, passengers had to cross the Missouri River by boat.
K76G TIL A photon spends 40,000 years getting from the core of the Sun to the surface, but then only 8 minutes to get to Earth.
mkWo TIL that as a result of a 20-year-old online joke that the German city of Bielefield doesn’t actually exist, the city released a press statement titled ‘There Really is a Bielefeld!’. However as it was released on April 1st, this humorously only added to the conspiracy.