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TIL 2 rats will stop playing with each other if the bigger one doesn't let the smaller one win at least 30% of the time

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NXvjE TIL that a Pokemon card with the move “Birthday Surprise”, a move that would deal more damage if it was the day your birthday, was banned from competitive play in order to stop people from faking their date of birth to cheat.
d8mdK TIL that hundreds of women disguised themselves as men in order to fight in the American Civil War. They were first discovered in 1863, when a Union burial detail found that the corpse of a woman wearing the uniform of a Confederate private. Estimates put the number of female soldiers at 400-750.
neP79 TIL the very first sci-fi novel, A True Story, was written in ancient Greek in the 2nd century AD. It featured space travel, aliens, robots, artificial atmospheres and more
GYyy5 TIL that in Tina Fey's childhood, her parents allowed her to watch Young Frankenstein, SNL, Monty Python, Marx Brothers, and the Honeymooners, but she was not allowed to watch The Flintstones.
JYVRV TIL that 1% of the static seen in between changing channels on TV is caused by the light of Big Bang