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TIL: Tennis Baseball: a Baseball Game, But With Tennis Rackets!

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8eBlP TIL Philip Oakey of The Human League did not want "Don't You Want Me" to be released as a single because he thought the song was a "poor quality filler track." He finally agreed on the condition that a poster accompany the single so fans wouldn't "feel ripped off." The song became their biggest hit.
WZNN TIL: Three soviet engineers volunteered their lives at Chernobyl to release water from the broken reactor. Had they not done this, the resulting fallout would have covered most of Europe. All three men died within two weeks.
Qn86 TIL in 1977 singer Tom Waits was arrested outside a coffee shop for trying to stop men from bullying other patrons.These men were plainclothes officers,and Waits was charged with disturbing the peace.Waits disputed the charge,was found not guilty,and successfully sued the police dept. for $7,500
b9oAj TIL of Fatal Familial Insomnia, an inherited brain disease that eventually causes one to be incapable of sleep. It has no known cure. It involves progressively worsening insomnia, which leads to hallucinations, confusional states like that of dementia, and eventually, death.
Wk4DL Til: The "X" in Xbox game console refers to relying on the directx api and was choosen by the directx team at microsoft