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TIL that the man that came up with the password recommendations regrets it.

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lombK TIL that the longest professional baseball game ever lasted 33 innings and over 8 hours. Players became delirious with exhaustion, it got so cold that people burned bats to keep warm, and the president of the league stopped the game at 4 a.m. The final score was 3-2 after play resumed a month later.
5YerD TIL during WWII an American plane was shot down on the Japanese island of Chi Chi Jama. There were nine men on board, eight of whom were captured, tortured, beheaded, and eaten. The only one to evade capture had ditched his plane further from the island than the others. He name was George HW Bush.
aLAZ TIL that geomagnetic storms are correlated with an increase in suicide all over the world
yEnw TIL A soldier once returned from deployment to find his wife had died and his young children had starved to death.
J1Ra1 TIL there is a province in Italy where 62% of the population uses German as their first language