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TIL that in 2000 Nintendo, after receiving numerous complaints about children getting hand injuries by playing Mario Party, settled the case and agreed to provide up to four protective gloves to each household of consumers who own the game (up to $80mil), and also cover the cost of investigation

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kOE4B TIL that Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken isn’t a celebration of choice and individuality - It’s actually the opposite. He wrote it sarcastically to make fun of an indecisive friend, and the poem actually asserts that the choice between the “two paths” doesn’t really make a difference at all.
p8rLA TIL about Richard Francis Burton, a British "explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat." He spoke 29 languages, translated the Kama Sutra, and shocked Victorian England with his essays about homosexuality.
a8Wa0 TIL Michael Buffer makes between $25,000 and $100,000 every time he says,”let’s get ready to rumble”
699oZ TIL that Duke Nukem Forever holds the Guinness World record for "Longest development period for a videogame"
9lLM TIL that Secretary of State James Forrestal’s death was ruled a suicide even though there were signs of a struggle, he was found thrown from a closed window with a cord around his neck and left a suicide note that was in someone else’s handwriting