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TIL Atari once released a pinball machine called Hercules that measured seven feet tall, eight feet long and three feet wide. You used pool cue ball to play it.

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LkbMr TIL since 1922, the British Royal Horticultural Society has given out an annual Award of Garden Merit to the plant or crop which performs best under UK growing conditions.
m1VoP TIL in 2006 Russian police arrested nearly 100 people for participating in a mass brawl. After being taken to the local police station, they were all released without charge when officers realized they were players and supporters who were taking part in a rugby match
4M66 TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1995. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. After a cease-and-desist letter, Apple renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt Head Astronomer. Sagan sued. Apple then changed the name to “LAW”, short for “Lawyers are Wimps”.
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ZpW9Q TIL In the 1950s, the bureaucracy of Uruguay grew so large that there was little money left for operations. It got so bad that the Ministry of Public Works halted road work entirely because its whole budget was used to pay personnel and there was nothing left for fuel, equipment or materials.