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TIL Gamma-ray bursts release more energy in 10 seconds than our Sun in its entire life.

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p8vQN TIL Over a five-year period starting in 1968, commercial jets were hijacked nearly once a week in the United States.
E1D40 TIL that Best Buy removed the fighting video game “Primal Rage” from its shelves after an Arizona woman complained that her 11-year-old son had faithfully portrayed one of the game’s gorilla-like character’s “golden shower/urination” fatality move.
VM5Wk TIL about Boston Brahmins - upper class English colonists who saw themselves as the social equivalent of Brahmins in the Indian caste system
vK8j TIL Steve Jobs tried to donate a computer for EVERY school in America, when the government did not collaborate he did it to the 10,000 schools in California
Wvp8 TIL that when Dave Hampton became the first Atlanta Falcon to rush for 1000 yards in a season in the last game of the 1972 season the game was stopped so the team could honor him. Soon after, Hampton was tripped up in the backfield on a sweep, losing five yards. He finished the season with 995 yards