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TIL Eastern Michigan Football signed a defensive lineman legally named Lion King

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e09vL TIL discussing sex became accepted in North Korea after Kim Jong-il’s visit to Mt. Chilbo in 1996. A guide showed Kim a rock which legend says depicts a couple having sex, and Kim enjoyed the story. After that, every time Kim visited new sites, guides created stories describing them in sexual terms
bQkp TIL that divers in 1900 discovered an ancient Greek shipwreck with an odd-looking bronze device on board. The device was later determined to be the world’s oldest analog computer, dating back to the 1st century B.C.E., thousands of years before similar technologies would be re-discovered
Eg5xW TIL the "affect heuristic" is a heuristic, a mental shortcut that allows people to make decisions and solve problems quickly and efficiently, in which current emotion—fear, pleasure, surprise, etc.—influences decisions.
5VlY8 TIL the US Mint has a dollar coin honoring the first home video game system developed in 1966 by Ralph Baer. The obverse features the Statue of Liberty and the reverse depicts the 'Handball' video game.
6EvkZ TIL Purdue sales reps were taught to sell Oxycontin as less addictive than competitors, and addiction symptoms whilst on the pill was "psuedoaddiction" and to tell doctors that the fix for these symptoms was to push higher dosage pills to cure this.