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TIL it is illegal to deny the holocaust in 17 countries
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TIL Only one NFL player has died on the field: Chuck Hughes in 1971. The game continued with a silent crowd
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TIL that Vermont (42% gun ownership rate) had the lowest rate of gun murders in 2010: only 2
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TIL that Xerox scanners sometimes used to randomly substitute digits in scanned documents, e.g. turning 6s into 8s. The issue was discovered and fixed in 2013 but old scanners might still be affected.
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TIL that 1816 is known as the “Year Without a Summer,” due to the eruption of Mount Tambora, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
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TIL the actual yeti may just be the extremely rare Tibetan blue bear. It is one of the rarest subspecies of bear in the world, it is only known to exist through a small number of fur and bone samples.