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TIL the Sega Corporation was originally called Service Games with a focus on coin-operated amusement machines for servicemembers and moved to Japan after the US government outlawed slot machines in 1952.

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ANkjx TIL traditional Albanian tribal law (Kanun) may have originated in the Bronze Age, predating the Roman empire and the Homerian epics. Kanun is based on honor, hospitality, right conduct, and kin loyalty. In some parts of Albania, men are confined at home to avoid triggering inter-family blood feuds.
7rjpM TIL that an early Bronze Age woman was found in Britain with two lambs buried beneath her, her finger posed to point towards her ancestors tombs, and a piece of the White Cliffs of Dover chalk against her mouth. Her skull shows that she was sacrificed with a sword.
NXnjb TIL The Panará tribe lived mostly isolated from the rest of the world until 1973, when the Brazilian government had a highway built directly through their territory. Within a year, 70% of the tribe had died of newly introduced diseases.
NO7Q TIL that The Villages, the largest gated retirement community in America, also has one of the fastest growing STD rates in the country.
NnJ TIL 20% of the entire world’s unfrozen freshwater is in a single lake.