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TIL Looting during and after Hurricane Katrina was grossly over exaggerated by the media.

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Zlkp TIL Crayola’s most senior crayon moulder who, after 37 years of service and approximately 1.4 billion crayons produced, revealed he was colorblind
nwkr TIL Bill Gates wrote his school’s computer program for scheduling students in their classes. He edited it so he would end up sitting with female students.
xVOEk TIL that on May 11, 1995, during the first E3, Sega announced their new Saturn console would cost $400 and shockingly had been shipped to select retailers that same day. During their keynote, Sony announced the Playstation would launch at $300. Sega would exit the console business six years later.
OoDVa TIL: MLB umpires are required by rule to wear only black underwear in the event that they split their pants.
4e65 TIL Bahia Bakari, a 12 year old French girl, was the sole survivor of an Airbus A310 crash near Comoros that killed 152 people. She could barely swim and had no life vest, but clung to a piece of aircraft wreckage for over 9 hours before being rescued.