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TIL The computer game Tron actually came out after the movie did. It even made more money in arcades than the movie did in theaters.

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OGyge TIL: The French in the 19th century developed Canne de combat, a fighting style that utilizes a cane. It was primarily used by the upper class. In WW2, there was a group that would used cane techniques to carry out assassinations. Unfortunately, the last masters of cane fighting are dying out.
5VBbP TIL According to the American Dental Association, 25.4% of people suffer from a gap between their front two teeth. Diastema, the most common form, can be due to differences in the size of the teeth or the jawbone
W7pP4 TIL: Farmers feed “cow magnets” to their cattle to protect them from “hardware disease” caused by swallowing nails and other metal objects
PgnE TIL that literally has become an example of an autoantonym – a word with two opposite meanings
N7Ede TIL Rick Kirkham of Tiger King fame conducted high profile interviews about drug abuse while secretly being high on crack