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TIL WoW experienced a virtual epidemic (later studied by epidemiologists), with some players volunteering healing services and others directing players away from infected areas.

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XyDk TIL 500g of polar bear liver contains 9 million international units of Vitamin A and would kill you if eaten
mx7kE TIL: Coney Island hasn't been an Island since the 1930s. Land fill efforts turned the once Island into a peninsula.
NRN6 TIL that the show ‘Deadliest Catch’ is bad for competition in the Bering Sea Fishing industry. The subsidies all the boats in the show receive allows them to undercut or break even with their seasonal catch.
kOw1e TIL of the Murchison meteorite, which fell to earth in 1969. It contained high levels of organic compounds, came from a parent body that had liquid water, and the amino acids it contained could not have been synthesized on earth because they consisted of both left- and right- isomers.
l7Y1G TIL Doris Miller joined the Navy as a mess assistant, one option for a black man. During the Pearl Harbor attack he saved several lives and successfully manned an anti-aircraft gun with no training, until the ship started to sink. He was killed in 1943. An aircraft carrier is named in his honor.