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TIL many survived the Pompeii volcanic explosion and the ones that were buried had time to go home, gather their family, valuables, and religious iconography before trying to flee and being caught in a "traffic jam"

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wLr1M TIL about the Guangxi Massacre during China's cultural revolution, where hundreds of people were cannibalized and barbecued out of hatred and tens of thousands more were murdered.
mxwPY TIL there is a bug in Microsoft Excel in which the program assumes Feb. 29, 1900 is a real date. This bug was purposefully put into Excel in order to be backwards compatible with the same bug in Lotus 1-2-3.
JYpaQ TIL that the French King, Lois XIV owned a collection of 413 beds in several places all over France, so that he could sleep in his own bed, no matter where he traveled.
x515 TIL that 1 in 5 people in Singapore are millionaires.
NvMb TIL: The biggest offical NES game ever made was was Dragonquest 4 with a size of 1MB. In contrast some of the systems smallest games took only 8KB up.