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TIL the 2004 "Thailand tsunami" killed an estimated 227,898 people, including 170,000 people in Indonesia

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LQYbV TIL of the 3:16 game. In a Broncos/Steelers playoff game, Tim Tebow wrote "John 3:16" on his eyeblack. He would go on to have 316 passing yards and 31.6 yards per completion. Ben Roethlisberger threw an interception on 3rd-and-16, and the Steelers had 31 minutes and 6 sesconds in time of possession.
GOv1 TIL Steve Jobs’ doctors correctly predicted that the St. Patrick’s Day/March Madness weekend would cause fatalities that would yield the organ donation he needed.
wAKW TIL that US military operations during the 2003 Iraq invasion were originally conducted under the codename Operation Iraqi Liberation. They later changed it to Operation Iraqi Freedom because of the acronym.
QNd0k TIL that in 1948 comedy writers at the BBC were forbidden to make jokes about lavatories and effeminacy in men or make suggestive references to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, prostitution, ladies' underwear, animal habits (e.g. rabbits), lodgers, and commercial travellers.
lYaK TIL there’s a man made pit in Nova Scotia. To this day, people don’t know what’s at the bottom of it.