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TIL Actress Chelsea Peretti's Older Brother Jonah is the founder of Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post

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d8A98 TIL the camera film for the famous "Tank man of Tiananmen square" photo was hidden in a toilet while Chinese police searched the photographer's hotel room
oRwJA TIL about Charvaka, an atheisitc and anti-clerical Indian philosophy which rejected the Vedas and believed that all perceivable matter was all that existed in the universe. Adherents as a result were told to pursue a life of hedonism with no ethical or religous qualms as they exist to control joy
69mlX TIL Kim Dotcom, founder of the controversial Megaupload, was once the world’s top-ranked Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 player. Before his 2012 arrest in New Zealand, he achieved the highest cumulative score in free-for-all mode out of over 15 million players worldwide.
aww8J TIL it takes 300 people, 12,000 parts, and one year to make a single Steinway & Sons piano.
VpAm TIL that the Tourette Syndrome Association released a statement after the South Park episode “Le Petit Tourette” where they complimented the show on being “well researched” and that it “served as a clever device” to get accurate information to the public.