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TIL that Seth MacFarlane worked on Cartoon Network's Johnny Bravo.

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ep415 TIL the official cause of the Xbox 360 red ring of death was the poor quality of soldering balls used to adhere the GPU to the motherboard. The fluctuations in temperature when the console was turned on and off frequently, led to the soldering balls fracturing.
Ynjd TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
R7N6w TIL that a marathon is exactly 26 miles and 385 yards because that happened to be the length of the 1908 London Olympic marathon and not because it is the distance between Marathon and Athens, which is approximately 25 miles.
xVl0o TIL No-one knows who actually invented the fire hydrant, as its patent was destroyed in a fire at the U.S Patent Office in 1836.
xL6g TIL that, despite making up via http://ift.tt/1e0aSni