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TIL that the late president of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamauchi owned the Seattle Mariners baseball team. He had never been to a baseball game before buying the team, and despite owning the Mariners for over 20 years, never attended a single one of their games.

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xgKg TIL Elton John’s husband David Furnish was recently caught having a threesome in a paddling pool full in olive oil. This fact has been banned from being broadcast in England and Wales, and news outlets are, right now, being threatened to remove all traces of the story.
7rZwr TIL that E.T. was originally a horror movie titled Night Skies, which involved a crew of aliens attacking a family in their home. One of the aliens, who was less evil than the others, made friends with the family's son, and Steven Spielberg eventually dropped the rest of the film to focus on this.
MjgB TIL our walking speed is affected by whom we’re with: men’s pace slows down by an average of 7% when walking w/ female partners they’re interested in; women walking together move the slowest; & men walking w/ male friends moved at speeds faster than either man’s preferred walking speed.
BJme TIL of Jerusalem Syndrome, in which some previously sane religious tourists go into a psychotic religious fervor after arriving in Jerusalem. Symptoms include shouting out psalms, delivering sermons, and wearing hotel bed sheets like a toga.
e914 TIL when childhood friend, Amy Wadge, couldn’t afford to pay her mortgage, Ed Sheeran let her co-write “Thinking Out Loud,” so she could get paid for it. The song has been streamed more than half a billion times on Spotify alone, and it eventually went three times platinum in the UK.