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TIL within hours of its release in 1993 the video game DOOM was banned from numerous university networks as a rush of players overwhelmed their systems with deathmatches

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Ej9W TIL that at one of Tokyo’s busiest train stations, a rail line was converted from an above-ground line into a subway. There were zero service interruptions. The lowering of the rail line’s tracks into its subway position was done in one night, during its normal service off hours lasting ~4 hours.
NXeDP TIL the Space Shuttle Enterprise's Computer 2 failed on the first flight test because of bad soldering, showing that the redundancy of the backup computers worked properly.
e0YO4 TIL For his role in the Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 life sentences plus 9300 years, without parole. His sentence is declared as the longest officially confirmed sentence ever handed down in the world.
Br1jy TIL the highest paid public official is not a legislator or head of state. With a salary of 7.09 million dollars it is actually Nick Saban the head football coach for The University of Alabama.
x6AR0 TIL that to always win at Guess Who? instead of asking narrow questions you should ask broad questions, like "Does your person's name start with the letter A through M?" versus narrow questions like "Does your person have red hair?". Using this method you can guess the correct person in 5-6 tries.