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TIL there was a hostage crisis at Berkeley , California in 1990s where the accused (who was suffering from a schizophrenic episode) demanded trillions of dollars from the federal government in his bizzare list of demands.

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erGg TIL that Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell had a cameo in the movie Apollo 13. He requested to play the captain of the ship that rescues him, because that was the same rank he held when he retired from the Navy
R7rOj TIL of the "Chicken of Tomorrow" contest,which was created in 1948 to develop "superior meat chickens".Most of the chicken we eat today is genetically related to the winner of that contest.
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4Xb8R TIL The image format "PNG" is pronounced "ping" officially
1aPWX TIL brainfuck is an esoteric programming language whose compiler uses only 240 bytes of memory making it around 11,000 times smaller than the C++ compiler.