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TIL In 1990, a game called "KZ Manager" was released, where you play the part of a Nazi Concentration Camp Commandant. The game is a 'rollercoaster tycoon' style management game and is banned in Ge... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Berkshire Hathaway has never had a stock split and each share trades at over US$400,000. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL That eggplants, tomatoes and avocados are botanically classified as berries but that a strawberry is not a berry at all. (carnegiemuseums.org)
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TIL Shi Pei Pu was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. He became a spy who obtained secrets from Bernard Boursicot, an employee in the French embassy, during a 20-year-long sexual affair in which ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Limp Bizkit's "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water" is the fastest-selling rock album ever in the United States. It broke the seven year record held by Pearl Jam for their album "... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL when Blink 182 recorded Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, their manager said there was no 'good-time summer anthem', Tom and Mark responded 'You want a fucking single? I'll write you the cheesies... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The Goonies director Richard Donner was eager to return home to Hawaii after a hectic shoot with a cast of kids. He said "I love ’em to pieces, but I can’t stand it anymore!’ After shooting wra... (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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TIL at least one of the victims of the Vesuvius Eruption in 79 C.E was found with a vitrified brain. In other words their brain was turned to glass due to the extreme heat. (www.nejm.org)
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TIL an Australian rancher noticed cattle drinking rainwater that had collected in a mysterious metal object on his property which, after an investigation, turned out to be the end cap from one of S... (spectrum.ieee.org)
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TIL that instead of using pesticides, the Mexican state of Coloma releases billions of sterile fruit flies who then outcompete the fertile ones for mates. (www.iaea.org)
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TIL: Congress doesn't actually pass a law against child pornography until 1996. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in 1945, as a high school sophomore, Buffett and a friend spent $25 to purchase a used pinball machine, which they placed in the local barber shop. Within months, they owned several machin... (en.wikipedia.org)
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