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d8ax9 TIL Drowsy driving is as dangerous as Drunk driving.
GBLg TIL ‘Game Of Thrones’ and 'Westworld’ composer Ramin Djawadi kicked off his career in the late 1990s by composing music for a video game that sold poorly, but would later be regarded as revolutionary in the video game industry. The game was System Shock 2.
WkAQ8 TIL Charles Havlat was the last American soldier killed in WW2 just minutes after German and Allied officers had negotiated a ceasefire and a few hours before the German army’s surrender.
eMV6 TIL that a Russian suicide bomber received an unexpected text message from her wireless carrier which triggered her belt bomb and killed her instantly.
W9y4 TIL In 1966 a Beluga whale swam up the Rhine river (Germany) as far as Bonn. The skippers who first saw the whale had to take blood alcohol tests after reporting it.