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TIL Monopoly is based on The Landlord Game, a socialist board game all about the evils of monopolies. With socialist messages.

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W7E6Y TIL: The agricultural flail, a tool used to thresh grain, was adapted into both the nunchuck, a Japanese martial arts weapon, and the military flail, a weapon used in medieval warfare
DM8r TIL the chills experienced when listening to music is a result of the brain releasing dopamine – this occurs when a piece of music moves you, or when in anticipation of the peak moment during a song.
0wvbN TIL George Washington owned multiple sets of dentures made out of hippopotamus ivory, gold, lead, animal teeth, and even human teeth, and that by the time of his inauguration he only had one remaining tooth left.
jNrKp TIL Rockstar Games thought it was so important to include the song "Walk The Night" in GTA IV, that they hired a private investigator to look up the relatives of Delaney (who died in 2003) so they could find whoever holds the rights of the song now in order to make a licensing deal.
0wd7v TIL that bushido (the samurai code of conduct) is a modern construct, invented by a Christian Japanese in an English publication