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TIL that Slack was originally a video game company, created the unprofitable MMO "Glitch," and repurposed internal game tools to create their Fortune 500 chat app now worth $24bn.

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M7Ej8 TIL about Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, when a massive dust storm hundreds of miles wide and thousands of feet high tore through Oklahoma and Texas. Temperatures dropped 30+ degrees in 2 hours as the storm turned day into night, plunging the Southern Plains into total darkness.
dBY7 Today I learned that James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair, who portrayed the King & Queen of Zamunda in Coming to America, also provided the voices of Simba’s parents Mufasa & Sarabi in The Lion King
X06WX TIL The average adult undergarment has about a tenth of a gram of fecal matter. A week’s worth of dirty underwear would amount to one peanut size of feces
GARVG TIL: In 2019, Salman Mirza and his ex wanted to hook up, but didn't have a condom, so they used epoxy resin to seal it in instead. His friends later found him unconscious and drove him to the hospital where he died of multiple organ failures due to the faux condom.
VmRp TIL due to his cameos in the Marvel movies, Stan Lee is the 4th highest grossing actor of all time.