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TIL that the game of two-up is illegal outside of casinos in Australia, except on April 25th- ANZAC Day

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N5oM TIL on September 26th, 2011 Mikey Welsh posted on Twitter, “Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today” followed by, “Correction - the weekend after next”. He died October 8th, 2011 from a heart attack in his sleep in a hotel room. In Chicago.
ng8G TIL Gambling for cash is illegal in Japan. Instead, balls won from games are exchanged for prizes or tokens. These items are then exchanged for cash at a place nominally separate from the parlor.
QJQ9L TIL that Usain Bolt set his 9.58s 100m record on a diet of chicken nuggets
4XaP5 TIL NASA was founded about a year after the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, an artificial satellite and the first human made object to ever enter orbit, because it terrified the United States that this would give the USSR significant ground in the Cold War
RLn7 TIL In 2005, after a controversial eminent domain law was passed, allowing corporations to seize private land for their own use, an entrepreneur cited the new law in an attempt to confiscate the home of the judge who ruled in favor of it, generating wide support.