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TIL, On August 4th, 1985 at the intersection of I-40 and U.S.69, a car and semitrailer carrying military bombs collided. The results were a series of explosions that lead to the deaths of 47 people and the evacuation of 6000 residents of Checotah, OK.

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p8VB4 TIL the director of GoldenEye 007 (the game) discovered an issue with the N64's hardware, prior to the console's launch. Silicon Graphics, makers of the N64 chipset, considered doing a revision with a fix, but ultimately decided not to, due to costs and the possibility of that causing another delay
VMJG4 TIL The world's oldest known sex toy is 30,000 years old. It is a dildo which also doubled up as a tool for lighting fires
oDPR TIL Don McLean occasionally accidentally sang the lyrics to Weird Al’s Star Wars parody of “American Pie” when performing it onstage
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Oo4pg TIL that we have Star Wars to thank for the invention of Laser Tag