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TIL that in World of Warcraft, if you are drunk in-game, levels of enemies appear lower to the drunk player than they actually are, leading intoxicated players to unsuspecting deaths

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M7MWK TIL of the Vai syllabary, a script used for writing the Vai language of Liberia. It is hypothesized to be based off the Cherokee script, used by the Indigenous Cherokee people in modern day South Eastern United States, and diffused from Cherokee migrants on the Liberian coast.
e0QbJ TIL the movie set built for "Popeye" (1980) has been maintained as a tourist attraction and open-air museum on the island of Malta. People even get married there.
aG69 TIL that trickle-down economics used to be known as the “horse and sparrow” theory based on the idea that if you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through his bowels undigested for the sparrows to eat.
mxVNp Armed with thick, helmet-like plates on their foreheads and powerful legs that can run up to 30 miles per hour, cassowaries are often called “living dinosaurs.”
PYQLZ Today I learned that (contrary to modern portrayals) gladiators were not lean but rather chubby, allowing them to sustain more damage in the arena and continue fighting.