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TIL J J Abrams made a deal with Valve to make movies of Half-Life and Portal

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p8JRe TIL the Shrine of Rememberence in Melbourne, Australia was desiged with a cutout in the roof such that sunlight only shines through on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It lights up the word "Love" in the inscription during the moment of silence.
La5V TIL the Japanese term for a Shotgun Wedding is “Dekichatta kekkon”, which literally translates to “oops-we-did-it-marriage”
mZJx TIL at Gettysburg’s 50th reunion in 1913, a Union and a Confederate soldier stood where their regiments had fought and buried a hatchet.
d8V0r TIL Netherlands closed 19 prisons last year due to the lack of criminals
v1MWK TIL that a solar storm in 2012 with a strong Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) missed Earth by nine days. Had the CME hit Earth, it would have inflicted serious damage to worldwide electronic systems and cost up to $2.6 trillion. The recovery time from such a disaster would have been about 4 to 10 years