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TIL Eminem is one of the best donkey kong players.

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R0G4 TIL 65% of the world drinks goat milk over cow milk.
wLxgM TIL that after WWII, Col. S. L. A. Marshal published a report that found only 15-20% of soldiers in combat fired to kill during the war, even if their lives were threatened. This prompted the US Army to switch from bulls-eye targets to sillouette targets to desensitize soldiers to killing
78mwp TIL there was a Japanese troop transport ship called Montreal Maru and it was sunk during the Aleutian Islands Campaign, the only campaign of WW2 fought on North American soil
KORV6 TIL in 2013, a wild male tiger walked right up to a tiger enclosure at a zoo in India. Attracted by a captive female, the zookeepers let him in through a door in the enclosure. He stayed for a month, then escaped by jumping the fence, then returned a few weeks later.
R7GOQ TIL that 100's of years ago scribes drew colorful ¶ ("pilcrows") to mark new paragraphs. They'd leave blank spaces for the ¶'s then switch inks and add them. They would often miss some so readers evolved to interpret a blank space (indent) as the start of a new paragraph. Voila.