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TIL Steve Wozniak’s favorite video game is Tetris. He submitted so many high scores to Nintendo Power that they eventually stopped printing them, so he then sent in his scores under the name “Evets Kainzow”

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nW5YP TIL Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant who speaks 10 languages, described how numbers appear to him in terms of shape, color, and texture. For him, 289 is ugly, 333 is attractive, and pi is beautiful.
6aMJ TIL that Nickleback’s manager instructed Jimmy Kimmel Live director Bobcat Goldwait not to shoot Chad Kroeger from profile because of his big nose. Goldwait waited until there were 10 seconds left in the band’s live performance, then ordered all cameras to shoot Kroeger’s nose.
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XANk TIL that while investigating the Mississippi Burning case, authorities found the murdered bodies of 9 other black men unrelated to the 3 Civil Rights workers they were there to find.
epyZ6 TIL that in the Middle Ages, barbers were in high demand, with each monastery needing one. They performed surgeries, tooth extractions, and made ointments. The first recognized barber-surgeons worked in monasteries around 1000 AD.