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TIL that the online game Final Fantasy 14 is played so much that its sales had to be suspended to keep servers stable

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16dd TIL that the video for Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” helped reunite 26 missing children with their families.
0PBp TIL that there are only four Japanese men, called Takumis, able to assemble the engine and gear box of the Nissan GT-R, thus limiting monthly production to around 1,000
WkgkA TIL Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German general who told Hitler to go fuck himself
5YrGk TIL Honeybees can be trained to locate landmines due to their acute sense of smell. Croatian scientists mixed a sugar solution with a small amount of TNT — and after about five minutes of hunting for this doped sugar solution, the honeybees are trained to flock to the smell of TNT.
y0ZJ TIL Terminator 2: Judgement Day is the only movie sequel to win an Academy Award where the previous movie wasn’t even nominated.