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TIL a 14-year-old Florida boy committed suicide after developing an emotional relationship over several months with a character.ai chatbot of Game of Thrones's Daenerys Targaryen.

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4X786 TIL the planes that struck the World Trade Center Twin Towers weighed 100% more, carried 100% more fuel, and flew 100% faster than the plane whose impact the buildings were designed to withstand, a Boeing 707 airliner flying at landing approach speeds.
jN9lX TIL Norman Greenbaum wrote the famous song, "Spirit in The Sky" in only 15 minutes, and has been living solely on the royalties for the last 50 years.
8978 TIL that the members of blink-182 (around the time of Enema Of The State) had incorporated under the name Poo Poo Butt, LLC. because “it would be funny to have our accountants, managers and attorneys having to say that over the phone every day.”
dPO8 TIL in 1986 a Kansas sheriff rented a camera and VCR from his local video store, filming a 90 minute sex tape with his wife. Upon returning the equipment, he inadvertently left the tape inside the VCR. Soon enough, his whole town had watched and passed around copies of “The Sheriff Rides Again”
JY6PQ TIL Rival ice cream truck drivers in Glasgow in the 80s sold drugs from their trucks, shot at each other, and committed arson in the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars.