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TIL that Microsoft used to offer an IRC-based chat software that visually represented chats as sequences of comic panels and looked for cues in the text to help determine the comic character’s gestures and expressions.

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jN6lR TIL Rob McElhenney from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" willingly gained 50 pounds in preparation for Season 7 of the show. He consumed 5000 calories per day, and only stopped when his doctor said that his lifestyle was putting too much stress on his heart.
XVNj TIL there have been no successful attempts to reach the Sentinelese people, rendering them completely isolated from the rest of the world
Y7G8d TIL of the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War - a bloodless war between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly that lasted from 1651 until peace was officially declared in 1986
oRDNr TIL Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5 per cent
j6Xen TIL about Prosthaphaeresis, a technique that uses trigonometric identities to quickly approximate a product of 2 numbers by turning it into an addition. It was the only known technique to do so, preceding by 25 years the discovery of the logarithm