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TIL that in 1975 George R. R. Martin wrote a short story titled "The Last Superbowl" which depicted the last game of real sports to ever be played due to the rise in popularity of simulated sports. The fictional game took place in January 2016 between the Green Bay Packers and The Hoboken Jets.

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MeD60 TIL Alexander the Great wept when he heard Anaxarchus teach about an infinite number of worlds. When his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?"
7QQp TIL US Marines forced Saddam Hussein to watch South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut while in prison
WDRL TIL that 97% of Americans are contaminated with a widely-used sunscreen ingredient called oxybenzone that has been linked to allergies, hormone disruption, and cell damage.
eN6D TIL that Germany has 15 skyscrapers, 14 of which are located in Frankfurt.
YpZVW TIL Star Wars was one of the first films to do away with opening credits. George Lucas was fined $250,000 by the Directors Guild of America for not crediting himself... so he resigned.