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TIL that in 2007 journalist Jeff Gerstmann was fired for a giving a negative video game review

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9e7p TIL in 1942 a British forest guard in India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons.
l7BLA TIL Elizabeth Holmes' father was a VP at Enron
Y7J0P TIL that in the UK, it is extremely rare for a football club to relocate to another city, since the team is inexplicably tied to the city and culture there, rather than just being operated like a business.
RQL9 TIL that if your phone’s GPS tracks going over 1000MPH, it legally is required to deactivate as it probably means it’s being used to guide a missile.
1alm8 TIL in the Hobbit movies, Smaug is guarding 16,646,250 metric tons of gold, and it would be worth approximately 676 trillion USD.