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TIL there had been an eruption of methane from Uranus

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R7arl TIL British actor Gareth Jones died of a heart attack while performing in a live televised play in 1958 – in which his character was scripted to have a heart attack. The rest of the cast improvised around his death and finished the play.
9wrMX TIL that pack rat middens may contain materials for up to 50000 years
RXy6 TIL that China’s army holds annual training exercises against a ‘Blue Force’ equipped to resemble a NATO adversary like the United States. The Blue Force nearly always wins; in 2014, only one visiting brigade was able to defeat it at the cost of 50% casualties.
5Ky9 TIL of the Crooked Forest, a grove in trees in Poland that grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks. No one knows why they grow like this.
Ne9e TIL Scientists are developing a method of erasing negative emotional memories (like a break-up) using mild electric shocks.