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TIL Ghasts in Minecraft are voiced by a cat

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VMRL4 TIL the first person to stream their life on the internet was Jennifer Ringley aka Jennicam, a 19 year old woman who from 1996, broadcasted her life from her college dorm room 24/7. At its peak, she got 7 million hits per day, a significant proportion of the internet at the time.
6Eyxl TIL that in Belarus, a one-armed protester was arrested for violating a ban - on clapping
Y7njv TIL the expression Humble Pie derives from umble pie, a pie filled with chopped or minced offal, especially of deer but often other meats.
d80ME TIL that in the US, humans are more likely to survive a lightning strike than die from it. Only 10% of lightning strikes cause death.
d8by8 TIL Two years before James Brady was seriously wounded during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, he served as a press secretary to John Connally, who was seriously wounded during the assassination of John F. Kennedy.