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TIL that Halo 3 players worldwide teamed up in a "Great War" to defend humanity against aliens, with round-the-clock campaign shifts, killing billions of aliens, discussing it in 21 million online discussion posts, and creating 1.4 petabytes of data of 'service records'

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E1R90 TIL Sacha Baron Cohen trained with an FBI interrogator before his conversation with O.J. Simpson for "Who Is America?" in the hope that he could trick OJ into confessing
wPEW TIL that doctors’ green scrubs help them see better in the operating room. Since green is on the opposite side of the colour spectrum it can refresh a doctor’s vision of red things. It also prevents distraction from ‘green ghosts’, an after effect illusion from focusing on red colours.
bn09 TIL that there is a parasitic worm in grasshoppers that, when fully grown, makes the grasshopper seek water and drown to return the parasite to water.
1aw14 TIL Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in Wizard of Oz, had a guest appearance on Sesame Street which scared so many children it was never aired again.
grl07 TIL the lead singer of Boney M, the band that had the song “Rasputin” died on the same date and in the same town as the real Rasputin.