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TIL Due to casino distributions, every Seminole Indian child born is a multi millionaire when they turn 18 years old.

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NXgj8 TIL that there's a cafe in Tokyo called Dawn ver.β which hires paralyzed/limited mobility people to operate robot servers remotely so that they can still earn
xVRe0 TIL Brad Fiedel, when composing the now-iconic score for The Terminator, accidentally programmed his musical equipment to the unusual time signature of 13/16 instead of the more conventional 7/8. Fiedel found that he liked the "herky-jerky" "propulsiveness" of the signature and decided to keep it.
4Xoow TIL that Elijah Bond, the inventor of the Oujia board, also trademarked a talking board called the Nirvana talking board, which featured the word "Nirvana" inside a swastika. He sold it in his own company, called The Swastika Novelty Company (thankfully well before WWII).
8a508 TIL that there is an arrest order for Mark Zuckerberg in Faisalabad. Pakistan since 2012 because of blasphemous content on Facebook
yVBr8 TIL in 1834, an American physician named John Cook Bennett published an article claiming that tomato ketchup helped with stomach disorders, including diarrhea. He even released "ketchup pills," which were marketed as medicine.