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TIL of Good Judgement Project, a group of 3000 average citizens who make more accurate predictions of geopolitical events, using sources available on Google, than the CIA.

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EgPVp TIL that the Slurpee was invented by accident when a Dairy Queen owner would provide frozen soda, from a cooler, to customers when his soda fountain would break down. The owner, Omar Knedlik, improvised the Icee machine out of car parts, which was eventually licensed by 7-11, to become the Slurpee.
b98Z4 TIL the CCP has 90.5 million members.
l7MLG TIL about composer Claude Vivier’s murder in 1983, which some believe was actually an elaborate suicide. Vivier was stabbed to death by a man he picked up at a bar. Later an unfinished score of Vivier’s was found in which the protagonist Claude is stabbed to death by a man he meets in the subway.
Egjp TIL: There is a replica of the White House in Atlanta which was built as a Private Home
wPmW TIL the Kingdome in Seattle (former home of the Mariners) will finally be paid off in two years. It was demolished 14 years ago.