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TIL The Price Is Right rigs the plinko game for promotional ads using fishing line so that the chip lands in the $10,000 slot. The wire was mistakenly left in place and a contestant dropped 3 consecutive chips before it was noticed. She was allowed to keep the money.

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awyJM TIL The French are European Champions at abandoning pets. Between 100,000 and 200,000 pets are abandoned in France every year (60% during summer). In the UK the figure is closer to 16,000 a year. Typical excuses include going on holiday, having a baby, moving house, and new partner with allergies
kJdx7 TIL Federico da Montefeltro lost one of his eyes in a tournament so he had the bridge of his nose removed to increase the field of vision of his remaining eye.
nGQ7 TIL if a person has had part of their body crushed in an accident and trapped for more than 15 minutes, you should NOT free them without medical personnel on the scene. Crushed muscles break down into toxic byproducts, and releasing the pressure lets these flow into the body, killing the person.
gr9OX TIL in the 1980’s a Japanese humanitarian doctor in Afghanistan named Tetsu Nakamura who initiated the digging of the Pearl Canal which connects to the Kumar River. The canal supplied fresh water to over 600,000 people.
GYmbg TIL the frequency of Earth magnetic pole shift varied; geomagnetic reversals have been recorded every 250,000 years, and according to some data, every 100,000 years. The magnetic south and north were last replaced about 780,000 years ago, so the new shift that many fears is already "late".