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TIL A deer poacher in Missouri is sentenced to watch Bambi once every month during his yearlong prison term

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VM4GB Today I learned that the last individual to hold the title of Tsar was Simeon II of Bulgaria, who ruled the country during WW2, and again in the 21st century as Prime Minister. He's still alive today.
awDd9 TIL A Florida artist created the cover for Playboy's special Hugh Hefner tribute issue using hundreds of bits of paper culled from the Playboy magazine archives. He got the job two days after Hefner's death when he emailed Playboy a brief proposal offering his services
JY0OQ TIL the word asterisk derives from the Greek asteriskos, meaning “little star", and the symbol has been used by writers to mark sections in text since at least the Second Century BC.
4kWZo TIL the Sega Master System (originally released in 1985) is still widely produced and sold in Brazil, largely due to import duties on foreign electronics, wide affordability across all income brackets, and strong nostalgia for many Brazilians who view it as their childhood console
1VaX TIL 90% of the world has been invaded by Britain at some point in history