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TIL The entire nation of Qatar has the same IP address
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TIL the inventor of My Pillow was a crack addict who got sober when 3 of the largest crack dealers in the city staged an intervention.
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TIL It is estimated that 80 to 90 percent of all silent films are lost. According to research by Library of Congress only 14 percent of the 10,919 silent feature films released by major American studios between 1912 and 1929 is located and preserved.
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TIL that the band Manic Street Preachers still put 25% of their royalty earnings into an account for missing guitarist Richey Edwards (disappeared in 1995). Even continuing to do so after he was legally declared "presumed dead" in 2008.
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TIL Dead Skin Cells are a Main Ingredient In Household Dust
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TIL Rudolph Diesel took his inspiration for inventing the Diesel engine from watching a lecture where there was a demonstration of a Malaysian fire starting technique called the 'fire piston' which creates flames through air compression.