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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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R7MA7 TIL Taylor Swift was born into alot of money.. Her father is "a descendant of three generations of bank presidents" and worked for Merrill Lynch. At the age of 14 her family moved to Nashville where her father purchased a stake in Big Machine, which is where Taylor Swift first signed.
R7xBa TIL about "July Morning", an event in Bulgaria, where people gather on the beach all night and wait for the first July sunrise.
717 TIL that 99% of Estonians have blue eyes.
yKEp TIL that a 61 year old truck driver without a college degree was able to reproduce the classified mechanical workings of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
yQN08 TIL that World War II naval minefields still exist to this day because the minefields are too extensive and costly to remove. It is possible that these 1940s era mines can remain just as deadly as the day they were laid for years to come.