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TIL the “Stranger Things” font is the same one used on the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook from the late ‘80s.

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GAKb1 TIL that Finland has a "National Sleepy Head Day" where the last person in a household to wake up is thrown into a lake or the sea by the rest of the family or friends
gad7 TIL that Dr. Armand Trousseau, who first identified the link between blood clots and cancer [called Trousseau Syndrome], died of cancer soon after finding a blood clot in his leg; thus, self-diagnosing, suffering and succumbing to the very disease he discovered and named after himself.
78n0p TIL Samosas (fried, potato based triangular savoury South Asian snack) is banned in Somalia since 2011 due to Samosa's resemblance to the Christian trinity.
YbxP TIL that many MLB managers yell random things at umpires during “arguments” (such as complaining about wine they had an Italian restaurant or how bad their team is) in order to fire up their team while not getting thrown out of the game
e7KE TIL there was a beaver (now extinct) in North America that was over 8 feet tall and 130-220 pounds, the size of a modern black bear