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Today I learned, the origin of marbles is unknown.

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yQPE8 TIL that Aaron Burr went broke speculatively buying parcels of land in upstate New York. He did this while living on twenty-six acres in what would become some of downtown NYC's most prime real estate.
9yM TIL that New Zealand rugby player Wayne ‘buck’ Shelford took a cleat to the nuts during a rugby game which ripped open his scrotum leaving his testicles hanging, he got them stitched up on the bench and continued the game.
Y7gl7 TIL Philip Ahn was a Korean American actor who played villainous Japanese characters "to the hilt" during the Second World War. Ahn had fun with the parts, when asked to speak Japanese would actually speak Korean and make remarks described as “highly uncomplimentary to the Japanese.”
0dkLv TIL that a condor's wing feathers are over two feet long. Nearly as long as a tennis racket.
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