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TIL There's a board game called 'The Campaign for North Africa' which can take up to 1,500 hours to complete

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QJOke TIL about Otávio Jordão da Silva, a 20 year old Brazilian soccer/football referee who was stoned, beheaded, and quartered by spectators after he stabbed a player who punched him for making a controversial call. His head was put on a stake in the field.
5VKEr TIL of Joe Arridy who was a 23-year-old man with an IQ score of 46 and the mind of a six-year-old who was wrongfully convicted and executed in 1939. He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won't die". He smiled while being taken to the gas chamber.
vPeVD TIL a British drinking song, called "Anacreon in Heaven" was originally written for a 18th century Masonic club. The tune was later lifted by Francis Scott Key and merged with the poem "Defense of Fort McHenry" to become "The Star Spangled Banner", the national anthem of the United States.
M7YQA TIL Web Development Isn't As Easy As They Make It To Be
KoN4 TIL that the gangster movie in both Home Alone 1 & 2 is a fictitious movie created specifically for Home Alone.