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TIL in 2002, a 86 year old man was held 45min at the airport due to a strange metal item in his pocket that TSA couldn’t understand - it was a Medal of Honor.

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7rrrr TIL In 2013, Apple banned a game called “Send Me To Heaven” which involved throwing your iPhone as high as you can. The creator wanted to deliberately destroy as many iPhones as possible.
x8x5 TIL the Soviet Union closed down many churches and reopened them as Museums of Atheism dedicated to scientific education and anti-religious exhibitions
eLjk TIL the Brazilian football player Sócrates, was a doctor of medicine, a degree he earned concurrently playing professional football. He was also noted for being an intellectual, a heavy drinker and a smoker.
4Xa15 TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person known to have both dwarfism and gigantism. At 19 years old he was 4 feet 8 inches tall, by the time he was in his 30's he was 7 feet tall.
y48e TIL the makers of the board game Monopoly will set up a hotline for a few days over the holiday period to help mediate any game-based arguments.