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TIL that almost all of the stadiums used in the Beijing Olympics in 2008 are huge concrete wastelands at the moment

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WkmbY TIL that the developers of the racing simulator game Assetto Corsa were attempting to find the source of what they believed to be a bug with the in-game traction control. In reality, the "bug" was the simulation accurately recreating a real world physics problem they were unaware of.
m1eNM TIL that an accent called diaeresis is sometimes used in English. It looks like two dots over a letter and is written in alternative spellings of certain words, e.g. "naïve" instead of "naive".
R6A9 TIL a teenager hacked CIA director John Brennan’s email by calling Verizon’s customer support and pretending to be a Verizon technician
ZpewG TIL Sinéad O’Connor's was a victim of the Catholic Church's Magdalene Laundries
9YaLB TIL Wiz Khalifa sparked outrage in 2017 during a visit to Pablo Escobar's grave when he posted pictures of flowers at the grave's headstone. Medellin’s mayor, Federico Gutierrez, called the rapper disrespectful saying he should have brought flowers to the victims of Escobar's violence instead.