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TIL that you can’t play mini games while a game is on its loading screen because Namco holds that patent.

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nWGKr TIL a bear in a state park got into campers’ coolers and used claws & teeth to puncture beer cans; Fish & Wildlife Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear tried a can of Busch, ignored the rest, then drank about 36 Rainier beers. They caught it a live trap baited with donuts, honey, open cans of Rainier.
yQRXM TIL A woodpeckers tongue is 1/3 of its body length, and they wrap it around the back of their skull to protect their brain when pecking.
N7ZmM TIL that in 1140, when a opposition castle was captured by King Konrad III, the women of the castle were granted free departure and allowed to take what they could carry on their backs. Thinking quickly, the women carried the men on their backs. The King kept his word and let the men live.
rNGRo TIL that Hawaii is not part of the “Ring of Fire”.
Oo4eY TIL in the 80s an up and coming comic, Kenny Moore, got arrested immediately following a show for destroying a heckler in the head with a guitar