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TIL Space Invaders was so popular in Japan it caused a national coin shortage

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L9xQ TIL that through the process of grafting it is possible for one tree to produce multiple types of fruit. One remarkable example is the Tree of 40 fruit that produces up to 40 different stone fruits simultaneously
kJ8O1 TIL it snows in Hawaii
1LaX TIL that the dying King George V was euthanised with morphine in 1936, according to doctor’s notes, to ensure that his death would be announced in morning papers and not in the “less appropriate” evening papers.
jNeBN TIL of a 2014 lawsuit against Canon over a printer error code that would appear shortly after the warranty expired, which they settled out of court after agreeing to extend the warranty to anyone experiencing this code. The issue still exists in their new printers, under a different error code.
A957 TIL the audience at Woodstock, which had peaked at an estimated 400,000, was down to about 30,000 by the time Jimi Hendrix took the stage, many of whom merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving during his performance