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TIL in 2012 a Chinese father hired gamers to ‘kill’ his son in-game repeatedly to stop his gaming addicition

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KO7AB TIL of Tim Macartney-Snape an Australian who was technically the first person to climb all of Everest. He started with a swim in the Bay of Bengal over 700 miles away, ran 1.5 marathons in 5 days to reach a checkpoint crossing, and 29,031ft in elevation gain later he summited Everest.
e0xbD TIL that during one scene in JAWS 2 the teens' fear and cries of shark were real, as they were being circled by a 15-foot shark. The production crew at a distance thought they were acting and just gave them a thumbs up.
VMlWD TIL of Edward Katskee, a scientist who accidentally overdosed on Cocaine after he purposefully injected himself with a large dose of to test how it affected the human body. He attempted to write notes on the walls of his office as he died. They were deemed too illegible to be scientifically useful.
d8l8Q TIL the NASA Voyager probes that are currently exploring interstellar space have the computing power of a standard key fob. Science is amazing.
oB5aK TIL that after the Disney/Pixar animated film “Ratatouille” was released, demand for rats as pets surged by as much as 50%