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TIL Painite, the rarest gem in the world, only has two dozen specimens ever found.

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Z8JKa TIL that police officers tap the rear of your vehicle with their hand when performing a traffic stop so that if anything were to happen to the officer during the encounter, there would be physical evidence of them coming into contact with your vehicle via fingerprints.
e0Ryn TIL That in the final year of Stephen Hawkings life his signature voice was actually running on a Raspberry Pi partially using code from the Super Nintendo emulator 'Higan'
xwW1 TIL that Jeff Bezos’ parents put several hundred thousand dollars into Amazon.com to get it started.
b9yJ0 TIL golfers were arrested in South Carolina for teeing it up on a Sunday – a clear violation of the state’s Blue Laws. The laws, which were heavily influenced by the Ten Commandments, were strictly enforced by Governor John G. Richards.
LeGr TIL French gamer hunted down and stabbed a guy who killed him 6 months ago with knife in counter strike.