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TIL the guy who optimized web traffic so that sites didn’t crash displaying The Phantom Menace trailer was the first guy killed in 9/11.

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rNakd TIL that the Titanic movie, which has well cemented itself in modern culture, has made less money (nominally) than Avatar 2, a movie I’ve never heard discussed in any conversation even though release 6 months ago.
6EMow TIL The best paid athlete of all time is the Ancient Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles. His winnings totaled over 15 billion in today’s US dollars.
Z8lPp TIL: When Hideki Tojo was imprisoned at Sugamo Prison after WWII a dentist named Jack Mallory was tasked with puttinh in new dentures for him, shortly before his execution. Jack Mallory then drilled 'Remember Pearl Harbor' in Morse Code onto his dentures.
VJP0 TIL on why he’s never visited Russia, Prince Philip (the Queens husband) replied - ‘I’d like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.’
NXx78 TIL that in Kenya, one man assumed the identity of a lawyer named Brian Mwenda and won dozens of lawsuits despite not being trained. However, he was arrested for identity theft after his deception was uncovered.